Get all xml attribute values in python3 using ElementTree



I have the following xml file



<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
<country name="Liechtenstein">
<rank updated="yes">2</rank>
<year>2008</year>
<gdppc>141100</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Austria" direction="E"/>
<neighbor name="Switzerland" direction="W"/>
</country>
<country name="Singapore">
<rank updated="yes">5</rank>
<year>2011</year>
<gdppc>59900</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Malaysia" direction="N"/>
</country>
<country name="Panama">
<rank updated="yes">69</rank>
<year>2011</year>
<gdppc>13600</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Costa Rica" direction="W"/>
<neighbor name="Colombia" direction="E"/>
</country>
</data>


I want to write python 3 code using ElementTree to get all country names. So the end result should be a dict or array of



['Liechtenstein','Singapore','Panama']



I am trying to do this using Xpath but getting nowhere. So my code is as follows



import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(xmlfile)
root = tree.getroot()

names = root.findall("./country/@name")


However the above does not work as I feel my xpath is wrong.


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