Myujth

Is it possible in python to pretty print the root's attributes?

I used etree to extend the attributes of the child tag and then I had overwritten the existing file with the new content. However during the first generation of the XML, we were using a template where the attributes of the root tag were listed one per line and now with the etree I don't manage to achieve the same result.

I found similar questions but they were all referring to the tutorial of etree, which I find incomplete.

Hopefully someone has found a solution for this using etree.

EDIT: This is for custom XML so HTML Tidy (which was proposed in the comments), doesn't work for this.

Thanks!

generated_descriptors = list_generated_files(generated_descriptors_folder)
counter = 0
for g in generated_descriptors:
 if counter % 20 == 0:
 print "Extending Descriptor # %s out of %s" % (counter, len(descriptor_attributes))

 with open(generated_descriptors_folder + "\" + g, 'r+b') as descriptor:
 root = etree.XML(descriptor.read(), parser=parser)

 # Go through every ContextObject to check if the block is mandatory
 for context_object in root.findall('ContextObject'):
 for attribs in descriptor_attributes:
 if attribs['descriptor_name'] == g[:-11] and context_object.attrib['name'] in attribs['attributes']['mandatoryobjects']:
 context_object.set('allow-null', 'false')
 elif attribs['descriptor_name'] == g[:-11] and context_object.attrib['name'] not in attribs['attributes']['mandatoryobjects']:
 context_object.set('allow-null', 'true')

 # Sort the ContextObjects based on allow-null and their name
 context_objects = root.findall('ContextObject')
 context_objects_sorted = sorted(context_objects, key=lambda c: (c.attrib['allow-null'], c.attrib['name']))

 root[:] = context_objects_sorted

 # Remove mandatoryobjects from Descriptor attributes and pretty print
 root.attrib.pop("mandatoryobjects", None)
 # paste new line here


 # Convert to string in order to write the enhanced descriptor
 xml = etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=True, encoding="UTF-8", xml_declaration=True)

 # Write the enhanced descriptor
 descriptor.seek(0) # Set cursor at beginning of the file
 descriptor.truncate(0) # Make sure that file is empty
 descriptor.write(xml)

 descriptor.close()

 counter+=1