# *-* coding=utf-8from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTreefrom xml.etree.ElementTree import Elementfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import SubElementfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import dumpfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import Commentfrom xml.etree.ElementTree import tostringimport osfilename="book.xml"def CreateXml():  book =ElementTree()  purOrder =Element("PurchaseOrder")  book._setroot(purOrder)  list = Element("account",{'idsn':'2390094'})  purOrder.append(list)  item = Element("item1",{"sku":"abcd","qty":"4"})  SubElement(item,"Name").text="Potato Smasher"  SubElement(item,"Description").text="Smash Potatoes like never before"  purOrder.append(item)  item = Element("item2",{"sku":"gfhi","qty":"40"})  SubElement(item,"Name").text="Beijing"  SubElement(item,"Description").text="My Country"  purOrder.append(item)  indent(purOrder)  return bookdef indent(elem,level=0):  i ="/n"+level*"  "  print elem;  if len(elem):    if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():      elem.text = i + "  "    for e in elem:      print e      indent(e,level+1)    if not e.tail or not e.tail.strip():      e.tail =i  if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):    elem.tail =i  return elemif __name__ == '__main__':  book =CreateXml()  book.write(filename,"utf-8")  #book.write("book2.xml","utf-8",True) #true is with xml declaration