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<knack...@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.
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