Getting the right formatting for my XML data

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I am wondering why I’m not getting the right XML format when I’m writing my XML answer into a file.

Basically what I’m doing is sending a post request and receiving XML data back, doing something like this:

    post_request = s.post('myurl')
    soup2 = BeautifulSoup(post_request.text, features='xml')
    print(soup2.encode('utf-8')) 

    f=open("exit.xml","w")
    f.write(str(soup2.encode('utf-8')))
    f.close

First part does the work correctly but when I write it in my exit.xml all the data appears in the wrong format. What I mean by that is that everything is following, there is no indentation. Instead of going to the next line, there is n between the data. I’m getting something like that:

<part number="1976">n<name>Windscreen Wiper</name>n<description>The Windscreen wiper automatically removes rain from your windscreen, if it should happen to splash there. It has a rubbern <ref part="1977">blade</ref>n which can be ordered separately if you need to replace it </description>n </part>n

Any ideas on how to fix?

Asked By: clemdcz

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Answer 1

Try to add b flag when you open your file for writing. Also, remove the str(...):

with open('exit.xml', 'wb') as f_out:  # <-- add 'b' flag (binary)
    f_out.write(soup2.encode('utf-8'))

Answered By: Andrej Kesely

Getting the right formatting for my XML data

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