Python Parsing XML Response

Question

I have a SOAP response which I am trying to parse with ElementTree

    doc = ET.parse(response_xml)
    for cust in doc.findall('.//{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}Content'):
        custnumber = cust.findtext('{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}CustomerNumber')
        custfname = cust.findtext('{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}FirstName')
        custlname = cust.findtext('{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}LastName')
    return custnumber, custfname, custlname  

I am trying to get the information out of the response and I keep getting the following error:

No such file or directory

Does the response_xml need to be saved to a file before I can parse it? Why can't I just use it from memory?

Answer 1

ET.parse() needs a file name. You might want to try ET.fromstring() instead.