How do I get Python's ElementTree to pretty print to an XML file?

Question

Background

I am using SQLite to access a database and retrieve the desired information. I\'m using ElementTree in Python version 2.6 to create an XML file with tha

Answer 1

If one wants to use lxml, it could be done in the following way:

from lxml import etree

xml_object = etree.tostring(root,
                            pretty_print=True,
                            xml_declaration=True,
                            encoding='UTF-8')

with open("xmlfile.xml", "wb") as writter:
    writter.write(xml_object)`

If you see xml namespaces e.g. py:pytype="TREE", one might want to add before the creation of xml_object

etree.cleanup_namespaces(root) 

This should be sufficient for any adaptation in your code.