Hello.

In my program, I need to make use of an ElementTree object in various functions in my program.

More specifically, I am doing this:

tree = etree.parse('somefile.xml')

I am passing this tree around in my program.

I was wondering whether this is a good approach, or can I do this:

1. Create a global tree (I come from a C++ background and I know global is bad)
2. Create the tree again wherever required.

Or is my approach ok?