Tags with : in name in lxml
The : is an XML namespace separator. To escape the colon in lxml, you need to replace it with the namespace URL within curly braces, as in item.find("{http://example.org/}status").text.
The : is an XML namespace separator. To escape the colon in lxml, you need to replace it with the namespace URL within curly braces, as in item.find("{http://example.org/}status").text.