Search and remove element with elementTree in Python

You can remove child elements with the according remove method. To remove an element you have to call its parents remove method. Unfortunately Element does not provide a reference to its parents, so it is up to you to keep track of parent/child relations (which speaks against your use of elem.findall())

A proposed solution could look like this:

root = elem.getroot()
for child in root:
    if child.name != "prop":
        continue
    if True:# TODO: do your check here!
        root.remove(child)

PS: don’t use prop.attrib.get(), use prop.get(), as explained here.