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Convert JSON to XML in Python

I see a number of questions on SO asking about ways to convert XML to JSON, but I'm interested in going the other way. Is there a python library for converting JSON to XML?

Edit: Nothing came back right away, so I went ahead and wrote a script that solves this problem.

Python already allows you to convert from JSON into a native dict (using json or, in versions < 2.6, simplejson), so I wrote a library that converts native dicts into an XML string.

https://github.com/quandyfactory/dict2xml

It supports int, float, boolean, string (and unicode), array and dict data types and arbitrary nesting (yay recursion).

I'll post this as an answer once 8 hours have passed.

Solution

  • Nothing came back right away, so I went ahead and wrote a script that solves this problem.

    Python already allows you to convert from JSON into a native dict (using json or, in versions < 2.6, simplejson), so I wrote a library that converts native dicts into an XML string.

    https://github.com/quandyfactory/dict2xml

    It supports int, float, boolean, string (and unicode), array and dict data types and arbitrary nesting (yay recursion).