Dicttoxml extend

gistfile1.py

from dicttoxml import *

def convert_list(items, ids, parent, attr_type):
    """Converts a list into an XML string."""
    logging.info('Inside convert_list()')
    output = []
    addline = output.append
    
    if ids:
        this_id = get_unique_id(parent)
    
    for i, item in enumerate(items):
        logging.info('Looping inside convert_list(): item="%s", type="%s"' % (item, type(item).__name__))
        attr = {} if not ids else { 'id': '%s_%s' % (this_id, i+1) }
        if type(item) in (int, float, long, str, unicode):
            addline(convert_kv('item', item, attr_type, attr))
        elif hasattr(item, 'isoformat'): # datetime
            addline(convert_kv('item', item.isoformat(), attr_type, attr))
        elif type(item) == bool:
            addline(convert_bool('item', item, attr_type, attr))
        elif isinstance(item, dict):
            if not attr_type:
                addline('<segment>%s</segment>' % (convert_dict(item, ids, parent, attr_type)))
            else:
                addline('<segment type="dict">%s</segment>' % (convert_dict(item, ids, parent, attr_type)))
        elif type(item) in (list, set, tuple) or isinstance(item, collections.Iterable):
            if not attr_type:
                addline('<segment %s>%s</segment>' % (make_attrstring(attr), convert_list(item, ids, 'item', attr_type)))
            else:
                addline('<segment type="list"%s>%s</segment>' % (make_attrstring(attr), convert_list(item, ids, 'item', attr_type)))
        elif item == None:
            addline(convert_none('item', None, attr_type, attr))
        else:
            raise TypeError('Unsupported data type: %s (%s)' % (item, type(item).__name__))
    return ''.join(output)

Import from file

from libs.dicttoxml_fast.dicttoxml_fast import dicttoxml