Parse data from xml file

[heiner55]

Maybe this helps:

#!/usr/bin/python3

def cleanaa(a):
    cleana = a[0] if a != [] else ''
    return cleana 

[x, *y] = ['UKRAINE-EO13662']
print(x, cleanaa(y))

[x, *y] = ['SYRIA', 'UKRAINE-EO13662']
print(x, cleanaa(y))