small script to output xml as a string from a python dictionary
Project description
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.
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