How to tell lxml.etree.tostring(element) not to write namespaces in python?

Question

I have a huge xml file (1 Gig). I want to move some of the elements (entrys) to another file with the same header and specifications.

Let\'s say the original file co

Answer 1

This is more in comment to the answer by 'unutbu' in which a suggestion to cleanup namespace was desired without giving example. this might be what you are looking for...

from lxml import objectify
objectify.deannotate(root, cleanup_namespaces=True)