How to escape special characters in xml attribute using python -

i wondering how possible escape special characters in xml.

the following example fails sadly:

xml ="""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>     <render value="a &lt b"/> """ import xml.etree.elementtree et p = et.fromstring(xml)

output:
parseerror: not well-formed (invalid token): line 2, column 28

what easiest way round problem?

wrong escaping!

try

<render value="a < b"/>

and works fine!

Braziel