code: def _parse_command_response(response):
      
      try:
          root = ET.fromstring(response.text)
      except ET.ParseError:
          raise ResponseParseError(
              "Unexpected response format, could not parse XML. Response: {}".format(response.text))
  
      return root
docs: Parse an SCI command response into ElementTree XML
  
      This is a helper method that takes a Requests Response object
      of an SCI command response and will parse it into an ElementTree Element
      representing the root of the XML response.
  
      :param response: The requests response object
      :return: An ElementTree Element that is the root of the response XML
      :raises ResponseParseError: If the response XML is not well formed