Is there a preferred python module that could help me to send XML through a HTTP request and be able to parse the returning XML?
解决方案
One way would be to use urllib2:
r = urllib2.Request("http://example.com", data="spam",
headers={'Content-Type': 'application/xml'})
u = urllib2.urlopen(r)
response = u.read()
Note that you have to set the content-type header, or the request will be sent application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
If that's too complicated for you, then you can also use the requests library.
For parsing the response lxml is a great library, but elementtree will also do.