Easily create ElementTree with automatic Element factories
Creating tree structures like those used for HTML and XML should be dead easy. The xml.etree.ElementTree library goes quite far in creating a simple to use library for creating and modifying such structures. I’d like to go a step further, building on top of ElementTree:
from magictree import html, head, title, body, h1, p
doc = html(
head(
title('Chapter 1: Greeting')),
body(
h1('Chapter 1: Greeting'),
p('Hello, world!')))
from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
et.dump(doc)
Results in this: (added some whitespace for formatting)
<html>
<head>
<title>Chapter 1: Greeting</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Chapter 1: Greeting</h1>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html>
This works by replacing this module with a wrapper object in sys.modules that creates factory functions for elements based on their name.
I used this page as a basis for the hack: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2447353/getattr-on-a-module
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