Generating xml in python and lxml

Question

I have this xml from sql, and I want to do the same by python 2.7 and lxml

Answer 1

Note this also prints the BOM

>>> from lxml.etree import tostring
>>> from lxml.builder import E
>>> print tostring(
             E.results(
                 E.Country(name='Germany',
                           Code='DE',
                           Storage='Basic',
                           Status='Fresh',
                           Type='Photo')
             ), pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True, encoding='UTF-16')

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