[issue13823] xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write - argument checking

Eli Bendersky added the comment: About (1): It's customary for Python to accept "truthful" values (like non-empty strings) as True. I see no harm in that. Strict type-checking to boolean True in each and every place is not necessary. About (2): Similarly, this isn't productive. ET may not k

[issue13823] xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write - argument checking

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[issue13823] xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write - argument checking

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[issue13823] xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write - argument checking

New submission from patrick vrijlandt : (1) The docs say: xml_declaration controls if an XML declaration should be added to the file. Use False for never, True for always, None for only if not US-ASCII or UTF-8 or Unicode (default is None). The method also accepts other values, like xml_decla