Removing NS in ElementTree

[Stefan Behnel]

Sebastian Bassi wrote:
> I would like to remove the namespace information from my elements and
> have just the tag without this information. This
> "{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}" is preapended into all my output.

  for el in root.getiterator():
      if el.tag[0] == '{':
          el.tag = el.tag.split('}', 1)[1]


That should do the job.

Stefan