View difference between Paste ID: k4XsHCkR and 0x6WNHmF

-import pandas as pd
+## for https://stackoverflow.com/q/74567311/6146136
 #### links to outputs:
-from lxml import etree as Etr
+###### studentinfo_output.xml at https://pastebin.com/bPFg8TBL
-#import ElementTree
+###### studentinfo_op_unpretty.xml at https://pastebin.com/6NgFsYU0
-from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
+###### studentinfo_op_regpretty.xml at https://pastebin.com/5FQxLzCC
-from xml.parsers import expat
+
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
-import pandas_read_xml as pdx
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-with open('studentinfo.xml', 'r') as f:
+with open('studentinfo.xml', 'r') as f:
-    file = f.read()
+    xhtml = f.read() # [I just don't like "file" as a variable name]
-soup = BeautifulSoup(file, 'lxml') ## do NOT use 'xml' parser here unless you want to lose namespaces
+soup = BeautifulSoup(xhtml, 'lxml') ##  'xml' parser ---> lose namespaces
 
 enumTags = ['st:name']
 for d in [c for c in soup.descendants if c.name]:
     for name in enumTags:
         for i, t in enumerate(d.find_all(name, recursive=False)):
             t.name = f'{t.name}{i}'
-            print(soup.prettify)
+
-
+            # print(soup.prettify)
             # prettify is a method so it should be prettify()
             # if you print inside loop, it'll print with every edit
 
 # to save the new xml [3 different options]
 with open('studentinfo_output.xml', 'wb') as f:
     f.write(soup.prettify('utf-8')) # option 1
 with open('studentinfo_op_unpretty.xml', 'wb') as f:
     f.write(str(soup).encode('utf-8')) # option 2
 
 import re
 rpx = re.sub('[^> ]\s*\n\s*<', '<', soup.prettify())
 rpx = re.sub('>\s*\n\s*[^< ]', '>', rpx)
 with open('studentinfo_op_regpretty.xml', 'wb') as f:
     f.write(rpx.encode('utf-8')) # option 3