[lxml-dev] altering the indent of the pretty output

[Stefan Behnel]

Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> i'm currently porting gazpacho (a wysiwyg gtk ui file editor) to lxml,
> unfortunately the pretty printer prints with an indent of 2 and in order
> to match the convention i need an indent of 4
> 
> is there any simple way to archive pretty dumping to a file with an
> indent of 4?

I just remembered that Fredrik has an indentation function for ElementTree:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm

Most of the stuff on that page should work unchanged with lxml.etree.

Stefan