# inspired by https://gist.github.com/sente/1083506 # The MIT License (MIT) # Copyright (c) 2016 Stuart Powers # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all # copies or substantial portions of the Software. # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. import re def pretty_print(xmlstr, indent=' ', line_break='\n'): # python2 doesn't have nonlocal current = [0] def indent_line(line): addition = 0 if re.match(r'.+]*>$', line): # single line text element, don't change indentation addition = 0 elif re.match(r'^ 0: # end of element and have padding, decrement indentation by one current[0] -= 1 elif re.match(r'^<\w[^>]*[^/]>.*$', line): # start of element, increment indentation by one addition = 1 else: # single line element, don't change indentation addition = 0 # update and store current indentation in outer function current[0] += addition # pad the line and return return (indent * (current[0] - addition)) + line # split the document into lines, indent each line, then rejoin lines return line_break.join( map( indent_line, re.sub('(>)(<)(/*)', r'\1\n\2\3', xmlstr).split('\n') ) )