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

I ended up taking the solution from here, then adding a for-loop over the elements in your array. The output uses attributes instead of elements like you had asked, though.

Full code outside of that function is this. I ended up using regex to strip out the intermediate tags, then placed the on the outside at the end.

import re 

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

xml_title = "test"
xml_tag_pattern = re.compile(r''.format(xml_title))
inner_xml = re.sub(xml_tag_pattern, '', ''.join(dict2xml(e, root_node=tag_name) for e in array))

print('<{0}>{1}'.format(xml_title, inner_xml))

The output is this (new lines added for clarity)