[Python] Is there simple xpath to find all parent elements within the xml structure?

I'm using python 3 and lxml.etree and I need to get list of all parent elements for selected element with the defined name.

Here is example of my XML structure

<root>
<father id="1">
<father id="2">
<child>
....


I do have an element object and need list of all objects of (to get their id attributes for example)

Using

element.xpath("parent::father)


returns list where is only first parent object (father id = 2) but I'd need to have whole path up, regardless how deep I'm.

Thanks

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