Pretty printing XML in Python

Question

What is the best way (or are the various ways) to pretty print XML in Python?

Answer 1

BeautifulSoup has a easy to use prettify() method.

It indents one space per indentation level. It works much better than lxml's pretty_print and is short and sweet.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

bs = BeautifulSoup(open(xml_file), 'xml')
print bs.prettify()