code: def get_remote_element(url, element_path=None):
      
  
      content = None
  
      if url is None:
          return content
      elif _FILE_LOCATION_REGEX.match(url):
          with open(url, 'rb') as xml:
              content = xml.read()
      else:
          try:
              urllib = getattr(six_moves, 'urllib')
              remote = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
              content = remote.read()
          finally:
              # For Python 2 compliance: fails in `with` block (no `__exit__`)
              remote.close()
  
      return get_element(strip_namespaces(content), element_path)
docs: :return: an element initialized with the content at the specified file or URL
      :see: get_element(parent_to_parse, element_path)