Howto create this XML string?

Sbaush sbaush at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 10:32:49 EST 2006


in the elementtree implementation the tostring function doesn't work with a
tree, work only with an element. What is the way to put the tree in a
string?

2006/1/20, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>:
>
> Sbaush wrote:
>
> > Is possible to have the XML in a string (for example xmlstring) and for
> > printing do a print xmlstring ?
>
> most about anything that can be written to a file can be written to a
> string
> using the StringIO module:
>
>     http://www.effbot.org/librarybook/stringio.htm
>
>     file = StringIO.StringIO()
>     tree.write(file)
>     data = file.getvalue()
>
> for elementtree, you can also use the tostring function:
>
>     data = ET.tostring(elem)
>
> </F>
>
>
>
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