you have fromstring() for parsing the xml. just fetch it with, e.g. urllib2 
and load it with fromstring(). 

On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 5:28:15 PM UTC+2, NeoToren wrote:
>
> Amazon Payments responds to a website with XML.
> Amazon doesn't send back an XML to my site - it just displays XML - at the 
> same URL my website sent a well formed, hashed and signed message.
> I need to parse the Amazon XML response into meaningful variables for 
> moving forward with the purchasing workflow.
>
> ElementTree can parse XML if fed with a file or a string.
> As far as I know ElementTree cannot read directly from an htttp address.
> Thus I need scrape the XML from the screen / that URL into a string to 
> feed ElementTree.
>
> How can I capture the XML into a string for further parsing
> ... or better still...
> Any magic to capture AND parse from a URL in a short and sweet way ?
>
> Thanks
>

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