don't sort attrib for xml tree in python

Question

I have code:

from lxml import etree
root = etree.Element("check", attrib={"p": "1","c": "2", "d": "3","v": "4"})
tree = etree.ElementTree(root)

and I get:

<check c="2" d="3" p="1" v="4"/>

But i need without attribute sorting:

<check p="1" c="2" d="3" v="4"/>

How i can get it?

Many thanks for any help.

You can use OrderedDict to preserve attribute order. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/22596064/407651. — mzjn, Jun 11 '18 at 09:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '18 at 12:39

you cannot control sort of attribute. but you can have access to attribute:

tree = etree.ElementTree(root)
att = tree.attrib
print (att) # {attr_name : attr_value}

from "attr" you can get only attr_name:

attr_name = att.kyes() # ['attr_name_1', 'attr_name_2'...]

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