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Simplify the attempted script to the bare minimum you need such as removing the timings. The process here is using iterparse usually for very large XML files to iteratively parse tag by tag wherever the tag resides in document so either as root, parent, child, descendant, etc.

Therefore, clean up the logic tag by tag and then on last needed tag, write row to csv with current assigned variables which are reset on every tag.

You can use Arduino, similar to C++ instead of Python by using Arduino IDE. NodeMCU supports the Arduino. There is a void loop() {} part in Arduino and you can use it as endless loop. This tutorial explains well.

I wouldn't recommend using regular expressions here. The case is clear, every line comes in a well defined format. So why not simply use string's split() method:

All of the above imports fail due to the file name being same as the module name which you import. Pretty sure you can't have the same name as the module you're trying to import. Try renaming the filename array.py to something else and it should work.

About pycache folder, it contains the compiled bytecode for the python program. This shouldn't have anything to do with this problem.