lxml question -- creating an etree.Element attribute with ':' in the name

[dieter]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> But, how do I handle something like:
>
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", since "xmlns:xsi" isn't a valid python identifier?

Read about "lxml"'s "namespace" support.