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| author | Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> | 2019-08-23 14:44:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-08-23 14:44:25 (GMT) |
| commit | b5d3ceea48c181b3e2c6c67424317afed606bd39 (patch) | |
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bpo-14465: Add an indent() function to xml.etree.ElementTree to pretty-print XML trees (GH-15200)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst index 9f46755..6047e6e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst @@ -572,6 +572,18 @@ Functions .. versionadded:: 3.2 +.. function:: indent(tree, space=" ", level=0) + + Appends whitespace to the subtree to indent the tree visually. + This can be used to generate pretty-printed XML output. + *tree* can be an Element or ElementTree. *space* is the whitespace + string that will be inserted for each indentation level, two space + characters by default. For indenting partial subtrees inside of an + already indented tree, pass the initial indentation level as *level*. + + .. versionadded:: 3.9 + + .. function:: iselement(element) Checks if an object appears to be a valid element object. *element* is an |