/brz/remove-bazaar

#! /usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

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"""XML externalization support."""

# "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't

# using enough of it." -- various

# importing this module is fairly slow because it has to load several ElementTree bits

try:

    from cElementTree import ElementTree, SubElement, Element

except ImportError:

    from elementtree.ElementTree import ElementTree, SubElement, Element

def pack_xml(o, f):

    """Write object o to file f as XML.

    o must provide a to_element method.

    """

    ElementTree(o.to_element()).write(f, 'utf-8')

    f.write('\n')

def unpack_xml(cls, f):

    return cls.from_element(ElementTree().parse(f))