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I've spent hours debugging this and I'm working on a personal project and I'm currently working with XML files that use namespaces, and I'm having trouble parsing them correctly using Python's `xml.etree.ElementTree`. Here's a sample of the XML I'm dealing with: ```xml <root xmlns:ns="http://example.com/ns"> <ns:item> <ns:name>Item 1</ns:name> <ns:value>100</ns:value> </ns:item> <ns:item> <ns:name>Item 2</ns:name> <ns:value>200</ns:value> </ns:item> </root> ``` When I try to access the `ns:name` tags, I get an `ElementTree` behavior because it seems to be unable to find elements with namespaces. My current code looks like this: ```python import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET xml_data = '''<root xmlns:ns="http://example.com/ns"> <ns:item> <ns:name>Item 1</ns:name> <ns:value>100</ns:value> </ns:item> </root>''' root = ET.fromstring(xml_data) items = root.findall('ns:item') for item in items: name = item.find('ns:name').text print(name) ``` When I run this code, I get the following behavior: ``` AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text' ``` I've tried modifying the `find` method to include the full namespace URI like this: `find('{http://example.com/ns}name')`, but I still get `None`. I suspect it might be related to how I'm handling namespaces in the `findall` and `find` methods. How can I correctly parse this XML with namespaces in Python? Any help with properly handling namespaces would be highly appreciated. What's the best practice here? This is happening in both development and production on Linux. Any ideas what could be causing this?