Xiang Zhang added the comment: <Events /> is an empty tag. It closes it self, not '/>'.
With some content, you can see it has start and end tag. >>> import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET >>> events = ET.Element('Events') >>> events.text = 'abc' >>> tree = ET.ElementTree(events) >>> tree.write('/tmp/a.xml', xml_declaration=True, encoding='UTF-8') <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <Events>abc</Events> ---------- nosy: +xiang.zhang resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28659> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com