How to consume XML from RESTful web services using Django / Python?

Question

Should I use PyXML or what\'s in the standard library?

Answer 1

There's also BeautifulSoup, which has an API some might prefer. Here's an example on how you can extract all tweets that have been favorited from Twitter's Public Timeline:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
import urllib

url = urllib.urlopen('http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml').read()
favorited = []

soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(url)
statuses = soup.findAll('status')

for status in statuses:
    if status.find('favorited').contents != [u'false']:
        favorited.append(status)