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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def xpathRegisterNs(self, prefix, ns_uri):
 """Register a new namespace. If @ns_uri is None it unregisters the namespace """

        ret = libxml2mod.xmlXPathRegisterNs(self._o, prefix, ns_uri)
        return ret