[issue33561] Add .tostring() method to xml.etree.ElementTree.Element

[Steven Vascellaro]

Steven Vascellaro <Stevoisiak at gmail.com> added the comment:

Alternatively, the most intuitive solution would be to give `Element` an explicit `__str__` method.

The current behavior of `str(Element)` is to return the object's location in memory.

```
from xml.etree import ElementTree

xml = ElementTree.Element('Person', Name='John')
print(str(xml))
# Output: <Element 'Person' at 0x028575D0>
```

Unfortunately, changing this behavior could cause issues with backwards compatibility.

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