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Hi list,

How does one prevent elementtree converting & to & (and similarly
for other entities)?
>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
x = et.Element( 'test' )
x.text = '&'
et.tostring ( x )
'<test>&amp;</test>'

Sometimes I would like to have the output '<test>&</test>'

Daniel
May 13 '07 #1
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"Daniel Nogradi" <no*****@gmail. comwrote:
Hi list,

How does one prevent elementtree converting & to &amp; (and similarly
for other entities)?
>>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
x = et.Element( 'test' )
x.text = '&'
et.tostrin g( x )
'<test>&amp;</test>'

Sometimes I would like to have the output '<test>&</test>'

Daniel
elementtree is for processing xml. If you want to output something which
isn't xml then you'll have to use a different library or mess about with
the xml after it has been generated:

et.tostring(x). replace('&amp;' , '&')

does what you want, but you won't be able to parse it again with anything
which expects xml.
May 13 '07 #2
How does one prevent elementtree converting & to &amp; (and similarly
for other entities)?
>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
x = et.Element( 'test' )
x.text = '&'
et.tostring ( x )
'<test>&amp;</test>'

Sometimes I would like to have the output '<test>&</test>'

elementtree is for processing xml. If you want to output something which
isn't xml then you'll have to use a different library or mess about with
the xml after it has been generated:

et.tostring(x). replace('&amp;' , '&')

does what you want, but you won't be able to parse it again with anything
which expects xml.
Thanks for the reply, I'll just live with replace then.
May 13 '07 #3

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