ElementTree write method

Question

I am trying to write some XML to disk:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

root = ET.Element("root")
doc = ET.SubElement(root, "doc")

ET.SubElement(doc, "field1", name="blah").text = "some value1"
ET.SubElement(doc, "field2", name="asdfasd").text = "some vlaue2"

ET.dump(root)
ET.write("filename.xml")

However I get the error AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'write'

I can't figure out what module has the write attribute. All the examples I've seen online show the attribute as belonging to tree, but I don't know how to define tree. One source does this:

from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
tree = ElementTree()
tree.parse("index.xhtml")
tree.write("output.xhtml")

But I am not reading and parsing a file. Would appreciate some help, thanks.

you can always do open('filename.xml', 'w').write(ET.dump(root)) — furas
– furas, Commented Jul 4, 2019 at 7:24

furas · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-04 07:27:33Z

2

You need

tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
tree.write("filename.xml")

You can also use

open('filename.xml', 'w').write(ET.dump(root))

answered Jul 4, 2019 at 7:27

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