Stefan Behnel added the comment: Just to reiterate this point, lxml.etree supports a "pretty_print" flag in its tostring() function and ElementTree.write(). It would thus make sense to support the same thing in ET.
http://lxml.de/api.html#serialisation For completeness, the current signature looks like this: def tostring(element_or_tree, *, encoding=None, method="xml", xml_declaration=None, pretty_print=False, with_tail=True, standalone=None, doctype=None, exclusive=False, with_comments=True, inclusive_ns_prefixes=None): (The last three options are for C14N serialisation.) ---------- nosy: +scoder versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14465> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com