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24th July 2009 - Link Blog

xmlwitch. An XML building library for Python that doesn’t suck (I love ElementTree for parsing XML, but I’ve never really liked it for generation). Makes smart use of the with statement.

Posted 24th July 2009 at 12:33 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 24th July 2009.

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