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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+#  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+#                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+#                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+#                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+#
+# You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+#
+# This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.
+#
+"""Module for extracting test data from the test data folder"""
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
+                        unicode_literals)
+import os
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+import logging
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class TestData(object):
+    def __init__(self, data_folder):
+        self.data_folder = data_folder
+
+    def get_test_data(self, test_number):
+        # Create the test file name
+        filename = os.path.join(self.data_folder,
+                                "test{0}".format(test_number))
+
+        # The user should handle the exception from failing to find the file.
+        tree = ET.parse(filename)
+
+        # We need the <reply><data> text.
+        reply = tree.find("reply")
+        data = reply.find("data")
+
+        # Return the text contents of the data
+        return data.text
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    td = TestData("./data")
+    data = td.get_test_data(1)
+    print(data)