Create SVG / XML document without ns0 namespace using Python ElementTree [duplicate]

Answer 1

I just figured it out and I can't delete the question so here it is:

etree.register_namespace("","http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")

I think this only works as of Python 2.7 though.

Answer 2

Here's how I do it with lxml.

from lxml import etree
svg_tree = etree.fromstring(svg_str, parser=etree.XMLParser())
etree.tostring(svg_tree)

Used sample code from here: lxml-removing-xml-tags-when-parsing