Encoding in XML declaration python

Question

I have created an XML file using python. But the XML declaration has only version info. How can I include encoding with XML declaration like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

how you are generating XML, which lib?

Anurag Uniyal
– Anurag Uniyal

2010-04-08 05:09:35 +00:00
Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 5:09 — Anurag Uniyal
– Anurag Uniyal, Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 5:09

zoli2k · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-08 05:13:25Z

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>>> from xml.dom.minidom import Document >>> a=Document() >>> a.toprettyxml(encoding="utf-8") '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n'

or

>>> a.toxml(encoding="utf-8") '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'

you can set the encoding for the document.writexml() function in the same way.

answered Apr 8, 2010 at 5:13

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3 Comments

Newskooler Over a year ago

How do you actually writexml() and keep the encoding?

retrovius Over a year ago

It should be noted that when you pass 'UTF-8' as the encoding argument, toprettyxml() returns a bytes object. Thus, when you write to a file you must open it with the 'wb' option with open("minidom_example.xml", "wb") as f: \n f.write(xml_str)

KlausCPH Over a year ago

Note that according to the docs, writexml() did not get the encoding-parameter until Python 3.9. So prior to that you have to use toxml()/toprettyxml() and then write that string to a file afterwards

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