Pretty printing XML in Python

Question

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

Answer 1

from yattag import indent

pretty_string = indent(ugly_string)

It won't add spaces or newlines inside text nodes, unless you ask for it with:

indent(mystring, indent_text = True)

You can specify what the indentation unit should be and what the newline should look like.

pretty_xml_string = indent(
    ugly_xml_string,
    indentation = '    ',
    newline = '\r\n'
)

The doc is on http://www.yattag.org homepage.