Python - Element Tree is removing the XML declaration

Question

I\'m writing some XML with element tree.

I\'m giving the code an empty template file that starts with the XML declaration:

Answer 1

There are different versions of ElementTree. Some of them accept the xml_declaration argument, some do not.

The one I happen to have does not. It emits the declaration if and only if encoding != 'utf-8'. So, to get the declaration, I call write(filename, encoding='UTF-8').