python - wget xml doc and parse with awk

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Well, that's what I'd do in bash :slight_smile: Here's what I have so far:

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

xml = urllib2.urlopen('http://weatherlink.com/xml.php?user=blah&pass=blah')
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xml)
print soup.prettify()

but all it does is grab the html page, not the xml it should serve. The example xml looks like:

...
<title>blah</title>
<link>http://www.blah.com</link>
</image>
<suggested_pickup>15 minutes after the hour</suggested_pickup>
<dewpoint_c>16.7</dewpoint_c>
<dewpoint_f>62</dewpoint_f>
<heat_index_f>77</heat_index_f>
...

what can I do to make:

some_data {}
some_data [ 'dewpoint_c' ] = 16.7
some_data [ 'heat_index' ] = 77

or whatever those values should be from the xml it should get? I've also tried things like:

dom = minidom.parse(urllib2.urlopen(url))

&

xml = ElementTree.fromstring(result)
print xml.findtext(".//heat_index_f")

but don't seem to be getting anywhere.