Source code for ly.etreeutil

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"""
Utility functions for use with xml.etree.ElementTree.
"""

from __future__ import unicode_literals


[docs]def isblank(s): """Return True if s is empty or whitespace only.""" return not s or s.isspace()
[docs]def indent(elem, indent_string=" ", level=0): """Indent the XML in element. Text content that is already non-whitespace is not changed. """ # based on http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint i = "\n" + indent_string * level if len(elem): if isblank(elem.text): elem.text = i + indent_string if isblank(elem.tail): elem.tail = i for elem in elem: indent(elem, indent_string, level+1) if isblank(elem.tail): elem.tail = i else: if level and isblank(elem.tail): elem.tail = i