export string variable as xml file

Question

I have a string variable (xmlcontents) containing data which I want to convert it to xml I used fromstring function and changed the type from string to etree.ElementTree.Element type but I cant export it as a file can you help with exporting the variable myxml?

from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML, fromstring
myxml = fromstring(xmlcontents)

It works but I want to export xml file to my directory but I don't know how — moham
– moham, Commented Mar 31, 2021 at 20:13

Charles Duffy · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-31 20:16:02Z

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Firstly, if xmlcontents is just correct xml file - you can just write it back to file as string :)
```
with open('somefile.xml', 'w') as the_file:
    the_file.write(xmlcontents)
```

Secondly, use ElementTree:

from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML, fromstring, ElementTree
myxml = fromstring(xmlcontents)
ElementTree(myxml).write('output.xml')

edited Mar 31, 2021 at 20:16

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answered Mar 31, 2021 at 20:14

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