remove ability to set a global metric prefix for prometheus exporter

[gursoz]

Description

remove ability to set a global metric prefix for Prometheus exporter

Fixes #3077

Type of change

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

How Has This Been Tested?

Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Provide instructions so we can reproduce. Please also list any relevant details for your test configuration

• tox -e py39-opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus

Does This PR Require a Contrib Repo Change?

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• The OTel specification has changed which prompted this PR to update the method interfaces of opentelemetry-api/ or opentelemetry-sdk/

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  • pyproject.toml
  • isort.cfg
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• When a new .github/CODEOWNER is added

• Major changes to project information, such as in:

  • README.md
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• Yes. - Link to PR:

• No.

Checklist:

• Followed the style guidelines of this project
• Changelogs have been updated
• Unit tests have been added
• Documentation has been updated

[srikanthccv]

Fix lint

[gursoz]

lint

Fixed the lint issues related to the changes in the PR. There are other lint issues.

[srikanthccv]

They are related to this PR

/home/runner/work/opentelemetry-python/opentelemetry-python/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/tests/test_prometheus_exporter.py:55:13: F841 local variable 'exporter' is assigned to but never used
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[gursoz]

They are related to this PR

Good catch, thanks. When I executed tox -e lint on my VM, it showed a lot of other errors and never reached this file. Next, I linted only the file under consideration and could see the error. Fixed now.