[Python] How to get string dump of lxml Element

I have an lxml Element object:

>>> from lxml import etree
>>> xml_str = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<state type=\"before_battle\">\n</state>"
>>> etree.fromstring(xml_str.encode('utf-8'))
<Element state at 0x7fd04b957e48>


How to get the string dump of Element?

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