How to get raw xml as string from Element

Question

I've the following code which parses an XML response and returns a list of Element objects representing products.

tree =  ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(raw_xml_response))
products = root.findall('//Product')

I now need to get the raw XML from each Product so I can store it in a DB. It seems Element doesn't have a method to do this - what's the customary way to get the raw XML from each Product Element?

Thanks,

Answer 1

There is a top-level function called tostring (docs) that accepts an element, try

print([ET.tostring(product) for product in products])