ElementTree and proper identation?

[Robert Kern]

John Salerno wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:

>> Yeah, actually I just gave this a try but I couldn't figure out where 
>> the code needed to go or how to call the function. I tried creating an 
>> Element with a few SubElements, then I did:
>>
>> print >> filename, indent(root)
>>
>> But that only wrote the value "None" into the file.
> 
> Ok, I see that indent() returns None. In that case, how do I get the 
> formatted text that it produces?

The indent() function modifies the elements themselves to add the indentation. 
So dump the tree to a string.

-- 
Robert Kern

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