[Tutor] Elementtree and pretty printing in Python 2.7

[Karim]

Sorry wrong import!

from xml.minidom import parseString
from xml.etree import ElementTree

Karim

On 08/22/2010 05:24 PM, Karim wrote:
>
> Hello Jerry,
>
> Tricky solution using minidom (standard) Not tested:
>
> import ElementTree
> import minidom
>
> def prettyPrint(element):
>    txt = ElementTree.tostring(element)
>    print minidom.parseString(txt).toprettyxml()
>
>
> Regards
> Karim
>
> On 08/22/2010 04:51 PM, Jerry Hill wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>