Pretty printing XML in Python

Question

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

Answer 1

I found this question while looking for "how to pretty print html"

Using some of the ideas in this thread I adapted the XML solutions to work for XML or HTML:

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString as string_to_dom

def prettify(string, html=True):
    dom = string_to_dom(string)
    ugly = dom.toprettyxml(indent="  ")
    split = list(filter(lambda x: len(x.strip()), ugly.split('\n')))
    if html:
        split = split[1:]
    pretty = '\n'.join(split)
    return pretty

def pretty_print(html):
    print(prettify(html))

When used this is what it looks like:

html = """\
'IDK!'


Hi
Try for 2
Oh No!
"""

pretty_print(html)

Which returns:

  
'IDK!'
  

  

    

      Hi
    
  
  
Try for 2
  
Oh No!