David Bear wrote:
> I google for 'convert python dictionary xml' but got way too many hits.
>
> Anyone have any pointers for a quick way to have a python dictionary
> represented as xml? I want to have repr(pythondict) where
> <tagname>=keyname, and the contents of the tag is the value.
your problem is a bit underspecified (to say the least), but assuming
well-formed string keys and string values, here's one way to do it:
>>> d = dict(foo="Foo!", bar="Bar!")
>>>
>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>> e = ET.Element("dict")
>>> for k in d:
... ET.SubElement(e, k).text = d[k]
...
>>> ET.tostring(e)
'<dict><foo>Foo!</foo><bar>Bar!</bar></dict>'
if you want to support than just straightforward string/string mappings,
you might want to look for XML serialization libraries instead.
Python's standard xmlrpclib module can be used for this purpose:
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> xmlrpclib.dumps((d,)) # dumps wants the data wrapped in a tuple
'<params>\n<param>\n<value><struct>\n<member>\n<name>foo</name>\n<value><string>
Foo!</string></value>\n</member>\n<member>\n<name>bar</name>\n<value><string>Bar
!</string></value>\n</member>\n</struct></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n'
see the library reference for details.
hope this helps!
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