how to add multiple keys and values to xml element in python?

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Basically I need to loop through a python dict and create an xml element tag with the for loop returned values as xml element keys, I.e:

d = {}
d["a"] = "1"
d["b"] = "2"
d["c"] = "what"

root = ET.Element("root")
child = ET.SubElement(root, "child")
for k,v in d.items():
    ET.SubElement(child, "field1", k=v).text = "some value1"
tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
tree.write("logs/filename.xml")

I want the result to look like:

<root><child><field1 a="1" b="2" c="what">some value1</field1></child></root>

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– Karl Knechtel, Commented Aug 27, 2021 at 23:04

Hai Vu · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-27 22:58:47Z

1

You only add field1 once:

d = dict(a="1", b="2", c="what")
root = ET.Element("root")
child = ET.SubElement(root, "child")
field1 = ET.SubElement(child, "field1")
field1.attrib.update(d)
field1.text = "some value1"

answered Aug 27, 2021 at 22:58

Hai Vu

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