Converting an array dict to xml in python?

Question

I have this array that I need to convert to xml.

array = [
    {
        \'time\': {\"hour\":\"1\", \"minute\":\"30\",\"seconds\": \"40\"}
    },
    {
        \         


        

Answer 1

As noted in the comments, your original question mixes attributes and elements. If you want everything as elements, you might be able to use dicttoxml. For example:

from dicttoxml import dicttoxml

array = [
    {
        'time': {"hour":"1", "minute":"30","seconds": "40"}
    },
    {
        'place': {"street":"40 something", "zip": "00000"}
    }
]

xml = dicttoxml(array, custom_root='test', attr_type=False)

Produces the following XML:

    
        
            40
            30
            1
        
    
    
        
            40 something
            00000
        
    

If you can convert your dictionary to:

dictionary = {
    'time': {"hour":"1", "minute":"30","seconds": "40"},
    'place': {"street":"40 something", "zip": "00000"}
}

Then your XML will look as desired.

    
        40 something
        00000
    
    
        40
        30
        1
    

Note that, in general, the order of dictionary keys are not guaranteed, so if you want to preserve the order of keys in a dict, you may want to check out collections.OrderedDict.