title: Python XML to dictionary to iterate over items
body: <p>I have the following XML example</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
  &lt;test&gt;
      &lt;items&gt;
          &lt;item&gt;item 1&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item&gt;item 2&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/items&gt;
  &lt;/test&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to iterate over each  tag in a for loop in python. If tried many things but I just can't get it..</p>
  
  <p>thanks for the help</p>