[SOLVED] [BeautifulSoup] Why does it turn inserted string's brackets into </>?

[Winfried]

Hello,

One more before I go to bed…

No matter what I try, BS turns the brackets of the LS string into "<" and ">" instead of keeping them as is:

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup   soup = BeautifulSoup(open('input.kml', 'r'), 'xml')   LS = "<Style><LineStyle><color>FF0000FF</color><width>6</width></LineStyle></Style>"   for ls in soup.find_all("LineString"):     parent = ls.parent       #BAD parent.insert(0,LS)     #BAD parent.insert(0,LS.encode(formatter="html"))     #BAD parent.insert(0,str(LS))   print(soup.prettify())

Thank you.

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Edit: Found a solution

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print(soup.prettify(formatter=None)) with open(OUTPUTFILE, "w") as file:     #file.write(str(soup))     file.write(soup.prettify(formatter=None))