pretty-prints XML

ppxml.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# pretty print xml
# modified from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/749796
#

import xml.dom.minidom
import codecs
import sys

argslen = len(sys.argv)
assert argslen >= 2

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)

xml = xml.dom.minidom.parse(sys.argv[1])
print xml.toprettyxml()