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dosvarog
dosvarog

Reputation: 754

How to write ElementTree to a file object in Python?

I have a XML-file that I need to send to some URL. I do that this way:

data = { 'file' : open('test.xml', 'rb') }
req = requests.post(URL, files=data)

This works, but problem is that first I need to generate XML, then I need to do this:

et = etree.ElementTree(root)
et.write('test.xml', encoding='utf8')

and then after that I do this:

data = { 'file' : open('test.xml', 'rb') }
req = requests.post(URL, files=data)

But I don't like this, I have XML-file, then I write it to disk, just to read it again from disk.

Is there a way to write that XML directly to file object (equivalent of open('test.xml', 'rb')) without writing it to file first?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 315

Answers (1)

Rakesh
Rakesh

Reputation: 82765

Try using tostring

Ex:

et = etree.ElementTree(root)
req = requests.post(URL, data=etree.tostring(et.getroot()))

Upvotes: 1

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