[Tutor] Elementtree and pretty printing in Python 2.7

[Jerry Hill]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Knacktus <knacktus at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm using Python 2.7 and the ElementTree standard-lib to write some xml.
>
> My output xml has no line breaks! So, it looks like that:
>
> <Items><Project creation_date="heute"/></Items>
>
> instead of something like this:
>
> <Items>
>    <Project creation_date="heute"/>
> </Items>
>
> I'm aware of lxml which seems to have a pretty print option, but I would
> prefer to use the standard-lib ElementTree which seems not to have a feature
> like this.
>
> Do I miss something using the ElementTree-lib or is it bug?

Neither, as far as I know.  The XML you get is perfectly valid XML.
If you want to pretty print it, there's a recipe here:
http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint, but I don't think
it's been included in the standard library yet.

-- 
Jerry