Howto write XML file with comments?

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Stefan Behnel schrieb:
> Alexander Eisenhuth, 08.07.2010 11:08:
>> - I've to write a XML document including comments
> 
> "write" in the sense of typing in a text editor? Or constructing one 
> programmatically in memory? Or ... ?

write means write to a file

> 
> And what kind of data from what kind of source do you want to put into 
> the document?

Data is present as tags and attributes

> 
> All of that has an impact on the 'right' answer.
> 
> 
>> - the document should be formatted that it could be viewed with a text
>> editor
>>
>> What is the fastest (time for realization) approach doing it in python 
>> 2.5?
> 
> If you mean to build an XML document programmatically, potentially using 
> data that you get from somewhere, take a look at cElementTree. There's 
> also a short recipe for pretty printing the tree before writing it out.

Is the API of cElementTree different from ElementTree in the python standard 
library?

> 
> Stefan
>