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Return a pretty-printed XML string for the Element.
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prettify.py
from xml.dom import minidom
from xml.etree import ElementTree
def prettify(elem):
"""
Return a pretty-printed XML string for the Element.
"""
rough_string = ElementTree.tostring(elem, 'utf-8')
reparsed = minidom.parseString(rough_string)
return reparsed.toprettyxml(indent=' ')
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