Create kml from csv in Python

Question

I am new to Python. I am working on gps files. I need to convert a CSV file having all the gps data to kml file. Below is the code in python I am using :

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Answer 1

One answer mentions the "etree", one advantage that you do not have to hardcode the xml format:

Below one of my examples, of course you have to adjust it to your case, but you may get the principle idea of how etree works:

to get something like this

 
  G:\AMSR\GW1AM2_201301010834_032D_L1SGRTBR_1110110_channel89H.csv
  wkbPoint
  
 

you can use this code:

import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
[....]
root = ET.Element("OGRVRTDataSource")

OGRVRTLayer  = ET.SubElement(root, "OGRVRTLayer")
OGRVRTLayer.set("name", AMSRcsv_shortname)

SrcDataSource = ET.SubElement(OGRVRTLayer, "SrcDataSource")
SrcDataSource.text = AMSRcsv

GeometryType = ET.SubElement(OGRVRTLayer, "GeometryType")
GeometryType.text = "wkbPoint"

GeometryField = ET.SubElement(OGRVRTLayer,"GeometryField")
GeometryField.set("encoding", "PointFromColumns")

GeometryField.set("x", "lon")
GeometryField.set("y", "lat")
GeometryField.set("z", "brightness")

tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
tree.write(AMSRcsv_vrt)

also some more info here