dict2xml 1.7.0

Small utility to convert a python dictionary into an XML string

Super Simple utility to convert a python dictionary into an xml string

Installation

Make youself a virtualenv and do the following:

$ pip install .

Or if you want to develop on dict2xml, recommended commands are:

$ pip install -e .
$ pip install -e ".[tests]"

Or if you don’t want to install from source:

$ pip install dict2xml

example

from dict2xml import dict2xml

data = {
  'a': 1,
  'b': [2, 3],
  'c': {
    'd': [
      {'p': 9},
      {'o': 10}
    ],
    'e': 7
  }
}

print dict2xml(data, wrap="all", indent="  ")

Output

<all>
  <a>1</a>
  <b>2</b>
  <b>3</b>
  <c>
    <d>
      <p>9</p>
    </d>
    <d>
      <o>10</o>
    </d>
    <e>7</e>
  </c>
</all>

methods

dict2xml.dict2xml(data, *args, **kwargs)

Equivalent to:

dict2xml.Converter(*args, **kwargs).build(data)

dict2xml.Converter(wrap="", indent="  ", newlines=True)

Knows how to convert a dictionary into an xml string

• wrap: Wraps the entire tree in this tag
• indent: Amount to prefix each line for each level of nesting
• newlines: Whether or not to use newlines

dict2xml.Converter.build(data)

Instance method on Converter that takes in the data and creates the xml string

Limitations

• No attributes on elements
• Currently no explicit way to hook into how to cope with your custom data
• Currently no way to insert an xml declaration line

Changelog

1.7.0 - 16 April, 2020

• Use collections.abc to avoid deprecation warning. Thanks @mangin.
• This library no longer supports Python2 and is only supported for Python3.6+. Note that the library should still work in Python3.5 as I have not used f-strings, but the framework I use for the tests is only 3.6+.

1.6.1 - August 27, 2019

• Include readme and LICENSE in the package

1.6 - April 27, 2018

• No code changes
• changed the licence to MIT
• Added more metadata to pypi
• Enabled travis ci
• Updated the tests slightly

1.5

• No changelog was kept before this point.