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

From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Date	2013-09-18 14:59 -0400
Subject	lxml question -- creating an etree.Element attribute with ':' in the name
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.128.1379530768.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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I can create an Element with a 'foo' attribute by doing:

etree.Element('my_node_name', foo="spam")

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?

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Roy Smith
roy@panix.com

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