我有这个xml输入文件：

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<zero>
  <First>
    <second>
      <third-num>1</third-num>
      <third-def>object001</third-def>
      <third-len>458</third-len>
    </second>
    <second>
      <third-num>2</third-num>
      <third-def>object002</third-def>
      <third-len>426</third-len>
    </second>
    <second>
      <third-num>3</third-num>
      <third-def>object003</third-def>
      <third-len>998</third-len>
    </second>
  </First>
</zero>

我的目标是删除<third-def>没有价值的任何第二层。为此，我编写了以下代码：

try:
    import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
except ImportError:
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
inputfile='inputfile.xml'
tree = ET.parse(inputfile)
root = tree.getroot()

elem = tree.find('First')
for elem2 in tree.iter(tag='second'):
    if elem2.find('third-def').text == 'object001':
        pass
    else:
        elem.remove(elem2)
        #elem2.clear()

我的问题是elem.remove(elem2)。它每隔第二级跳过一次。这是此代码的输出：

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<zero>
  <First>
    <second>
      <third-num>1</third-num>
      <third-def>object001</third-def>
      <third-len>458</third-len>
    </second>
    <second>
      <third-num>3</third-num>
      <third-def>object003</third-def>
      <third-len>998</third-len>
    </second>
  </First>
</zero>

现在，如果我取消注释该elem2.clear()行，则脚本可以完美运行，但是输出效果不佳，因为它保留了所有已删除的 第二级 ：

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<zero>
  <First>
    <second>
      <third-num>1</third-num>
      <third-def>object001</third-def>
      <third-len>458</third-len>
    </second>
    <second/>
    <second/>
  </First>
</zero>

有人知道我的element.remove()陈述为什么错误吗？