Use xml.etree.ElementTree to print nicely formatted xml files [duplicate]
You can use the function toprettyxml() from xml.dom.minidom in order to do that:
def prettify(elem): """Return a pretty-printed XML string for the Element. """ rough_string = ElementTree.tostring(elem, 'utf-8') reparsed = minidom.parseString(rough_string) return reparsed.toprettyxml(indent="\t")The idea is to print your Element in a string, parse it using minidom and convert it again in XML using the toprettyxml function.
Source: http://pymotw.com/2/xml/etree/ElementTree/create.html
You could use the library lxml (Note top level link is now spam) , which is a superset of ElementTree. Its tostring() method includes a parameter pretty_print - for example:
>>> print(etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=True))<root> <child1/> <child2/> <child3/></root>