Source code for ly.etreeutil

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"""
Utility functions for use with xml.etree.ElementTree.
"""

from __future__ import unicode_literals


def isblank(s):
    """Return True if s is empty or whitespace only."""
    return not s or s.isspace()


def indent(elem, indent_string="  ", level=0):
    """Indent the XML in element.
    
    Text content that is already non-whitespace is not changed.
    
    """
    # based on http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint
    i = "\n" + indent_string * level
    if len(elem):
        if isblank(elem.text):
            elem.text = i + indent_string
        if isblank(elem.tail):
            elem.tail = i
        for elem in elem:
            indent(elem, indent_string, level+1)
        if isblank(elem.tail):
            elem.tail = i
    else:
        if level and isblank(elem.tail):
            elem.tail = i