xml= "<graphics type='xxx' port=’0’ autoport='xxx' listen='0.0.0.0'>
  <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
</graphics>"

def xml_to_dict(xml):
      d={}
      if xmlk.text:
         d[xmlk.tag] = xmlk.text
      else:
         d[xmlk.tag] = {}
     children = xmlk.getchildren()
     if children:
         d[xmlk.tag] = map(xml_to_dict, children)
         return d

     xml_to_dict(xyz) Output: {'graphics': [{'listen': {}}]}

from lxml import etree
dict(etree.fromstring(xml).items())

{'autoport': 'xxx', 'type': 'xxx', 'port': '0', 'listen': '0.0.0.0'}

from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
tree = etree.fromstring(xml)

def xml_to_dict(tree):
  d={}
  if tree.text:
     d[tree.tag] = tree.text
  elif len(tree) < 0:
     d[tree.tag] = {}
  else:
     d[tree.tag] = map(xml_to_dict, tree)
 return d