Given an Element from etree, I would like to print only the opening tag. This would be immensely useful for debugging.

For example:

>>> from lxml import etree
>>> elem = etree.fromstring(b'''<bbq taste="awful" smell="amazing">
... <food type="hot dogs" />
... <food type="hamburgers" condition="burnt" />
... </bbq>''')

If I want to print this element I can use etree.tostring, but it can only print the full tree, even if it’d take up 10 screens:

>>> print(etree.tostring(elem).decode())
<bbq taste="awful" smell="amazing">
<food type="hot dogs"/>
<food type="hamburgers" condition="burnt"/>
</bbq>
>>>

What I would like is something like this:

>>> print(etree.tostring(elem, open_tag_only=True).decode())
<bbq taste="awful" smell="amazing">
>>>