[Tutor] Basic ElementTree - another question

[Phil]

On 25/2/20 1:00 pm, Don Jennings wrote:
>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 7:54 PM, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>> This is what I want to achieve:
>>
>>    <wpt lat="-32.506533000" lon="137.740017000">
>>      <name>1</name>
>>      <cmt>1</cmt>
>>      <desc>1</desc>
>>    </wpt>
>>
>> Hi, Phil. When you add keyword arguments (e.g. lat and lon), those become attributes in the resulting start-tag(s). Instead, assign the value to the text attribute of the element:
>>
>>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>>> root = ET.Element("root")
>>>> child = ET.SubElement(root, "child", attr="some attribute")
>>>> child.text = “content"
>>>> ET.tostring(root)
> b'<root><child attr="some attribute">content</child></root>’

Thanks Don, I appreciate your reply but after experimenting with what 
you have provided I still cannot get the result that I need. Would it be 
possible for you to provide code for the two lines that start with "<wpt 
lat=" and the next line "<name>1</name>"? Hopefully that will enable me 
to proceed with this section of the project.

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Regards,
Phil