Get string source of Python xml ElementTree

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How would you get the source of an ElementTree as a string in Python?

unutbu · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-23 17:03:33Z

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import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(source)
root = tree.getroot()
ET.tostring(root)

Note that there may be formatting differences between the content of source and ET.tostring(doc).

edited Nov 23, 2012 at 17:03

answered Nov 23, 2012 at 16:58

unutbu

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James Over a year ago

'ElementTree' object has no attribute 'tostring' happens when I tried this

Martijn Pieters Over a year ago

@James: then you are calling it on the wrong object. It's the module that has that method.

unutbu Over a year ago

@James: You are right that ET.tostring(tree) does not work if tree is an ElementTree (my mistake). Instead, get the root of the tree with root = tree.getroot(), and then call ET.tostring(root).

James Over a year ago

@MartijnPieters Yes! Thank you for pointing that out. I will accept as soon as I can

DevPlayer · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-07 11:02:01Z

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I know it is not, but I wonder why it wouldn't be:

tree.tostring(root)

instead of the current way:

xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring(root)

answered Apr 7, 2019 at 11:02

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