Pretty printing XML in Python

Question

What is the best way (or are the various ways) to pretty print XML in Python?

Answer 1

Here's my (hacky?) solution to get around the ugly text node problem.

uglyXml = doc.toprettyxml(indent='  ')

text_re = re.compile('>\n\s+([^<>\s].*?)\n\s+\g<1>

The above code will produce:

  
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We need Visual Studio 2005/2008 project files for Windows.
  

Instead of this:

  
    
      1
    
    
    

      We need Visual Studio 2005/2008 project files for Windows.
    
  

Disclaimer: There are probably some limitations.