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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 _strip_namespace(self, xml):
 """strips any namespaces from an xml string"""

        p = re.compile(b"xmlns=*[\"\"][^\"\"]*[\"\"]")
        allmatches = p.finditer(xml)
        for match in allmatches:
            xml = xml.replace(match.group(), b"")
        return xml