Deleting an XML element

lxml_item_delete.py

"""We want to remove //content item, this is one way to do it."""

from lxml.etree import tostring
from lxml.objectify import fromstring

xml = '
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<S:Body>
    <ns2:getStatusCdrResponse xmlns:ns2="http://service.sunat.gob.pe">
    <statusCdr>
        <content/>
        <statusCode>0001</statusCode>
    </statusCdr>
</ns2:getStatusCdrResponse>
</S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
'
xml_obj = fromstring(lxml)
removed_item = xml_obj.xpath("//content")[0] # We know it exist, the [0] is to get the StringElement from that list
removed_item.getparent().remove(removed_item)

print(tostring(xml_obj))