Question

I have a python list as

 [
     (A,{'a':1,'b':2,'c':3,'d':4}),
     B,{'a':1,'b':2,'c':3,'d':4}),
     ...
     ]

I want to know if there is a standard library of serializing this kind of list to xml or should I hand code it to a file.

Edit : Added Detail

Assuming this is used to construct a message such that

message = A( Feild attributes{‘a’:1,’b’:2,’c’:3,’d’:4}) || B Field attributes{‘a’:1,’b’:2,’c’:3,’d’:4}) || C Field attributes{‘a’:1,’b’:2,’c’:3,’d’:4})

Answer 1

“use json/yaml/whitespace” comments aside (I suppose you have your reasons to do so, instead go for pickle/json),

you can try the very pythonic elementtree library (in the standardlib), or even use some advice from google : search “converting python dictionary to xml”

(not to sound too rude .. take it with a wink)

looking at your example, what are A and B ? integers ? strings ? classmethods ?