How To Remove Xml Header In Beautifulsoup?

I have imported and modified some xml, but when I write out my xml using test.prettify(). It changes the top line of the xml from to

Solution 1:

I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do this using BeautifulSoup's built-ins, but based on your comment, I'll give you the "strip it out" version:

xml_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
print xml_string[:xml_string.find("encoding")-1] + "?>"

This is general enough to strip out any encoding from the header (not just utf-8).

Solution 2:

You could find the xml and use replaceWith() to replace it with the value you want.

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