from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTreefrom xml.etree.ElementTree import Elementfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import SubElementfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import dumpfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import Commentfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import tostring'''<?xml version="1.0"?><PurchaseOrder> <account refnum="2390094"/> <item sku="33-993933" qty="4"> <name>Potato Smasher</name> <description>Smash Potatoes like never before.</description> </item></PurchaseOrder>'''## Writing the content to xml documentbook = ElementTree()purchaseorder = Element('PurchaseOrder')book._setroot(purchaseorder)SubElement(purchaseorder, 'account', {'refnum' : "2390094"})item = Element("item", {'sku' : '33-993933', 'qty' : '4'})purchaseorder.append(item)print item.items() # [('sku', '33-993933'), ('qty', '4')]print item.attrib # {'sku': '33-993933', 'qty': '4'}print item.get('sku') # 33-993933SubElement(item, 'name').text = "Potato Smasher"SubElement(item, 'description').text = "Smash Potatoes like never before."#book.write('book.xml',"utf-8")#print tostring(purchaseorder)#import sys#book.write(sys.stdout)#dump(book)## Displaying the content of the xml documentprint purchaseorder.find('account')print purchaseorder.find('account').get('refnum')print purchaseorder.findall('account')[0].get('refnum')print purchaseorder.find('item/name')print purchaseorder.find('item/name').text## How to use ElementTree([element,] )## 1. From standard XML element, it becomes root elementprint ElementTree(item).getroot().find('name').text## 2. From XML fileprint ElementTree(file='book.xml').getroot().find('item/description').text## Create an iteratorfor element in purchaseorder.getiterator(): print element.tag## Get pretty lookdef indent(elem, level=0): i = "\n" + level*" " if len(elem): if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip(): elem.text = i + " " for e in elem: indent(e, level+1) if not e.tail or not e.tail.strip(): e.tail = i if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()): elem.tail = i return elemif __name__=="__main__": dump(indent(purchaseorder)) book.write('book.xml',"utf-8")