Convert Python Dictionary to XML

I was looking around for a function to do this but I couldn’t find one that did what I wanted. I found plenty of functions to convert XML to a python dictionary, but nothing to go the other way around. I wrote this quick little class that can accomplish this, along with convenience functions for easy usage (without using the oop approach).

Examples

Below I have two examples on how to use the class I have written. The first example uses the Object-Orient Approach, and the second example uses some helper functions to accomplish the same task.

Object-Oriented Approach

>>> import XMLDict
>>> obj =  { "people" : { "person" : [ "dave", "john", "steve", "mike", "jack" ] } }
>>> xml_dict = XMLDict.XMLDict(obj)
>>> print xml_dict.get_xml()
<people><person>dave</person><person>john</person><person>steve</person><person>mike</person><person>jack</person></people>
>>> print xml_dict.get_pretty_xml()
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<people>
	<person>
		dave
	</person>
	<person>
		john
	</person>
	<person>
		steve
	</person>
	<person>
		mike
	</person>
	<person>
		jack
	</person>
</people>

>>>

Convenience Methods

>>> import XMLDict
>>> obj =  { "people" : { "person" : [ "dave", "john", "steve", "mike", "jack" ] } }
>>> print XMLDict.convert_dict_to_xml(obj)
<people><person>dave</person><person>john</person><person>steve</person><person>mike</person><person>jack</person></people>
>>> print XMLDict.prettify(XMLDict.convert_dict_to_xml(obj))
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<people>
	<person>
		dave
	</person>
	<person>
		john
	</person>
	<person>
		steve
	</person>
	<person>
		mike
	</person>
	<person>
		jack
	</person>
</people>

>>>

Source

The code can be found on github at https://github.com/bahamas10/xmlserialize