Re: [lxml-dev] altering the indent of the pretty output

Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:

i'm currently porting gazpacho (a wysiwyg gtk ui file editor) to lxml, unfortunately the pretty printer prints with an indent of 2 and in order to match the convention i need an indent of 4

is there any simple way to archive pretty dumping to a file with an indent of 4?

Apart from the already proposed XSLT serialisation, libxml2 does have a way to set the indentation level. However, that is done globally at a per-thread level and isn't currently exposed at lxml's API level. I'd accept patches that support it for a single call to ET.write() and tostring(). Stefan