dict2xml 1.6.1

small script to output xml as a string from a python dictionary

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

print xmlify(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

1.6.1

• Include readme and LICENSE in the package

1.6

• 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.