Parse XML from URL into python object
I'd use xmltodict to make a python dictionary out of the XML data structure and pass this dictionary to the template inside the context:
import urllib2import xmltodictdef homepage(request): file = urllib2.urlopen('https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/20990068.xml?key=nGvCqaQ6tn9w4HNpW8kquw&v=2&shelf=toread') data = file.read() file.close() data = xmltodict.parse(data) return render_to_response('my_template.html', {'data': data})
xmltodict using urllib3
import tracebackimport urllib3import xmltodictdef getxml(): url = "https://yoursite/your.xml" http = urllib3.PoolManager() response = http.request('GET', url) try: data = xmltodict.parse(response.data) except: print("Failed to parse xml from response (%s)" % traceback.format_exc()) return data
xmltodict using requests
import requestsimport xmltodicturl = "https://yoursite/your.xml"response = requests.get(url)data = xmltodict.parse(response.content)