DeprecationWarning in python 3.12 when initial hello message being sent to TAK server (taky)

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When I try to send messages to my TAK server (taky in a local environment), I see the following deprecation warning exception being thrown during the generation of the hello event cot message:
python3.12/site-packages/pytak/functions.py", line 233, in gen_cot\n b"\\n".join([pytak.DEFAULT_XML_DECLARATION, ET.tostring(cot)]) if cot else None\n ^^^\nDeprecationWarning: Testing an element\'s truth value will raise an exception in future versions. Use specific \'len(elem)\' or \'elem is not None\' test instead.'} {'error': "Testing an element's truth value will raise an exception in future versions. Use specific 'len(elem)' or 'elem is not None' test instead."

In my local environment, I was able to resolve this by doing the following (this could definitely be cleaner):

 diff --git a/pytak/functions.py b/pytak/functions.py
index 9b98a91..fdd9e5c 100644
--- a/pytak/functions.py
+++ b/pytak/functions.py
@@ -221,10 +221,13 @@ def gen_cot(
 ) -> Optional[bytes]:
     """Generate a minimum CoT Event as an XML string [gen_cot_xml() wrapper]."""
     cot: Optional[ET.Element] = gen_cot_xml(lat, lon, ce, hae, le, uid, stale, cot_type)
-    return (
-        b"\n".join([pytak.DEFAULT_XML_DECLARATION, ET.tostring(cot)]) if cot else None
-    )

+    if cot is not None:
+        cot = b"\n".join([pytak.DEFAULT_XML_DECLARATION, ET.tostring(cot)])
+   return cot

Environment Details:
Python version : 3.12
Pytak version: 7.0.1
Python version manager: pyenv