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Issue #9458: clarify the documentation of ElementTree.write with regards to the type of the stream expected for a given encoding

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Eli Bendersky 2012-07-15 06:19:44 +03:00
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@ -650,15 +650,25 @@ ElementTree Objects
section root element.
.. method:: write(file, encoding="us-ascii", xml_declaration=None, method="xml")
.. method:: write(file, encoding="us-ascii", xml_declaration=None, \
method="xml")
Writes the element tree to a file, as XML. *file* is a file name, or a
:term:`file object` opened for writing. *encoding* [1]_ is the output encoding
(default is US-ASCII). Use ``encoding="unicode"`` to write a Unicode string.
*xml_declaration* controls if an XML declaration
should be added to the file. Use False for never, True for always, None
for only if not US-ASCII or UTF-8 or Unicode (default is None). *method* is
either ``"xml"``, ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``).
:term:`file object` opened for writing. *encoding* [1]_ is the output
encoding (default is US-ASCII).
*xml_declaration* controls if an XML declaration should be added to the
file. Use ``False`` for never, ``True`` for always, ``None``
for only if not US-ASCII or UTF-8 or Unicode (default is ``None``).
*method* is either ``"xml"``, ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is
``"xml"``).
The output is either a string (:class:`str`) or binary (:class:`bytes`).
This is controlled by the *encoding* argument. If *encoding* is
``"unicode"``, the output is a string; otherwise, it's binary. Note that
this may conflict with the type of *file* if it's an open
:term:`file object`; make sure you do not try to write a string to a
binary stream and vice versa.
This is the XML file that is going to be manipulated::