http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14257978/elementtree-setting-attribute-order
Apply monkey patch as mentioned below::
in ElementTree.py file, there is a functionnamed as _serialize_xml;
in this function; apply the below mentioned patch;
##for k, v in sorted(items): # remove the sorted here
for k, v in items:
if isinstance(k, QName):
k = k.text
if isinstance(v, QName):
v = qnames[v.text]
else:
v = _escape_attrib(v, encoding)
write(" %s=\"%s\"" % (qnames[k], v))
here; remove the sorted(items) andmake it just items like i have doneabove.
Also to disable sorting based on namespace(because in above patch; sorting isstill present when namespace is present for xml attribute; otherwise ifnamespace is not present; then above is working fine); so to do that, replaceall {} with collections.OrderedDict() from ElementTree.py
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> #
> # ElementTree
> # $Id: ElementTree.py 3440 2008-07-18 14:45:01Z fredrik $
> #
> # light-weight XML support for Python 2.3 and later.
> #
> # history (since 1.2.6):
> # 2005-11-12 fl added tostringlist/fromstringlist helpers
> # 2006-07-05 fl merged in selected changes from the 1.3 sandbox
> # 2006-07-05 fl removed support for 2.1 and earlier
> # 2007-06-21 fl added deprecation/future warnings
> # 2007-08-25 fl added doctype hook, added parser version attribute etc
> # 2007-08-26 fl added new serializer code (better namespace handling, etc)
> # 2007-08-27 fl warn for broken /tag searches on tree level
> # 2007-09-02 fl added html/text methods to serializer (experimental)
> # 2007-09-05 fl added method argument to tostring/tostringlist
> # 2007-09-06 fl improved error handling
> # 2007-09-13 fl added itertext, iterfind; assorted cleanups
> # 2007-12-15 fl added C14N hooks, copy method (experimental)
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< import collections
---
> # Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.
> # See http://www.python.org/psf/license for licensing details.
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< import ElementPath
---
> from . import ElementPath
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< def __init__(self, tag, attrib=collections.OrderedDict(), **extra):
---
> def __init__(self, tag, attrib={}, **extra):
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< def SubElement(parent, tag, attrib=collections.OrderedDict(), **extra):
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> def SubElement(parent, tag, attrib={}, **extra):
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< namespaces = collections.OrderedDict()
---
> namespaces = {}
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< for v, k in (namespaces.items()): # sort on prefix
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> for v, k in sorted(namespaces.items(),
> key=lambda x: x[1]): # sort on prefix
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< for k, v in items: # lexical order
---
> for k, v in sorted(items): # lexical order
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< ids = collections.OrderedDict()
---
> ids = {}
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< self._names = collections.OrderedDict() # name memo cache
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> self._names = {} # name memo cache
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< self.entity = collections.OrderedDict()
---
> self.entity = {}
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< attrib = collections.OrderedDict()
---
> attrib = {}
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< attrib = collections.OrderedDict()
---
> attrib = {}