software-mariodiana
9/10/2015 - 2:21 PM
Python 3 presents a wrinkle in printing an XML DOM document, as the data is of type bytes and must be explicitly decoded into a string. Here
Python 3 presents a wrinkle in printing an XML DOM document, as the data is of type bytes and must be explicitly decoded into a string. Here, we build an example DOM document and print it to STDOUT.
import io
# Note: xml.etree.cElementTree has been deprecated.
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, ElementTree
foo = Element('foo')
bar = Element('bar')
bar.text = 'baz'
foo.append(bar)
doc = ElementTree(foo)
b = io.BytesIO()
doc.write(b)
print(b.getvalue().decode('utf-8'))
"""
<foo><bar>baz</bar></foo>
"""