Xml Line Break Character Entity And Python Encoding

I have the following line of code in a python script: dep11 = ET.SubElement(dep1, 'POVCode').text = '#declare lg_quality = LDXQual; #if (lg_quality = 3) #declare

Solution 1:

What I eventually did was use the standard Python write function instead of using ElementTree's own write function.

text = ET.tostring(root).replace("&&", "&")

with open("LGEO.xml", "wb") as f:
    f.write(text.encode("utf-8"))

The above is the last step in the Python code. I don't know if there are disadvantages to converting the root object to a string like this. It could be slower but it works for me.