Creating and Posting XML with Python

Create and Post XML with Python

from xml.etree import ElementTree
request_xml = ElementTree.Element('request')
update_request = ElementTree.SubElement(
request_xml, 'itemUpdateRequest')
item = ElementTree.SubElement(update_request, 'item')
ElementTree.SubElement(item, 'itemUrl').text = itemUrl
for key, value in updateData.items():
    ElementTree.SubElement(item, key).text = value
response = self.request(
'/es/1.0/item/update',
method='post',
headers={'Content-Type': 'application/xml'},
data=ElementTree.tostring(
request_xml, encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)
)