Creating a simple XML file using python

Question

What are my options if I want to create a simple XML file in python? (library wise)

The xml I want looks like:

Answer 1

Yattag http://www.yattag.org/ or https://github.com/leforestier/yattag provides an interesting API to create such XML document (and also HTML documents).

It's using context manager and with keyword.

from yattag import Doc, indent

doc, tag, text = Doc().tagtext()

with tag('root'):
    with tag('doc'):
        with tag('field1', name='blah'):
            text('some value1')
        with tag('field2', name='asdfasd'):
            text('some value2')

result = indent(
    doc.getvalue(),
    indentation = ' '*4,
    newline = '\r\n'
)

print(result)

so you will get:

    
        some value1
        some value2