[Tutor] Pretty printing XML using LXML on Python3

[SM]

Thank you, eryksun. using tounicode seems to work on this small piece of
code. It still has issues with my code which is generating a big XML code.
I will figure out why.
-SM


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:12 PM, SM <sunithanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Run with Python3:
> >
> > $ python3 testx.py
> > b'<root>\n  <child/>\n  <child>some text</child>\n</root>\n'
>
> print() first gets the object as a string. tostring() returns bytes,
> and bytes.__str__ returns the same as bytes.__repr__. You can decode
> the bytes before printing, or instead use tounicode():
>
>     >>> s = etree.tounicode(root, pretty_print=True)
>     >>> print(s)
>     <root>
>       <child/>
>       <child>some text</child>
>     </root>
>
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