Extracting xml Data

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

article_file = "exampleResearchArticle.xml"

def get_root(fname)
	tree = ET.parse(fname)
	return tree.getroot()

def get_authors(root):
	authors = []
	for author in root.findall('./fm/bibl/aug/au'):
		data = {
			"fnm": None,
			"snm": None,
			"email": None
		}
		data["fnm"] = author.find('./fnm').text
		data["snm"] = author.find('./snm').text
		data["email"] = author.find('./email').text

		authors.append(data)

	return authors

def test():
	solution = [{'fnm': 'Omer', 'snm': 'Mei-Dan', 'email': 'omer@extremegate.com'}, {'fnm': 'Mike', 'snm': 'Carmont', 'email': 'mcarmont@hotmail.com'}, {'fnm': 'Lior', 'snm': 'Laver', 'email': 'laver17@gmail.com'}, {'fnm': 'Meir', 'snm': 'Nyska', 'email': 'nyska@internet-zahav.net'}, {'fnm': 'Hagay', 'snm': 'Kammar', 'email': 'kammarh@gmail.com'}, {'fnm': 'Gideon', 'snm': 'Mann', 'email': 'gideon.mann.md@gmail.com'}, {'fnm': 'Barnaby', 'snm': 'Clarck', 'email': 'barns.nz@gmail.com'}, {'fnm': 'Eugene', 'snm': 'Kots', 'email': 'eukots@gmail.com'}]

	root = get_root(article_file)
	data = get_authors(root)

	assert data[0] == solution[0]
	assert data[1]["fnm"] == solution[1]["fnm"]