<data>
    <items>
        <item name="item1">1</item>
        <item name="item2">2</item>
        <item name="item3">3</item>
        <item name="item4">4</item>
    </items>
</data>

 from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse('items.xml')
itemlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('item')
print(len(itemlist))
print(itemlist[0].attributes['name'].value)
for s in itemlist:
    print(s.attributes['name'].value)

  
>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>> 
>>> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString('<item name="item1">1</item>')
>>> doc
<xml.dom.minidom.Document object at 0x7f78bdf2a228>
>>> doc.firstChild
<DOM Element: item at 0x7f78bdf2f638>
>>> doc.firstChild.firstChild
<DOM Text node "'1'">
>>> doc.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue
'1'
>>>

import xml.dom.minidom
help(xml.dom.minidom)
doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString('<item name="item1">1</item>')
help(doc)

 from xml.dom.minidom import *
xml = parse('document.xml')
name = xml.getElementsByTagName('value')
for node in name:
  print node.childNodes[0].nodeValue

pip3 install lxml

 >>> from lxml import etree
>>> doc='''<data>
    <items>
        <item name="item1">1</item>
        <item name="item2">2</item>
        <item name="item3">3</item>
        <item name="item4">4</item>
    </items>
</data>'''
>>> tree = etree.fromstring(doc)
>>> path = tree.xpath('//item')
>>> for i in path:
	print(i.tag,i.attrib,i.text)
	
item {'name': 'item1'} 1
item {'name': 'item2'} 2
item {'name': 'item3'} 3
item {'name': 'item4'} 4