code: def request_xml(url, auth=None):
      '''
      Returns an etree.XMLRoot object loaded from the url
      :param str url: URL for the resource to load as an XML
      '''
      try:
          r = requests.get(url, auth=auth, verify=False)
          return r.text.encode('utf-8')
      except BaseException:
          logger.error("Skipping %s (error parsing the XML)" % url)
      returf request_xml(url, auth=None):
      '''
      Returns an etree.XMLRoot object loaded from the url
      :param str url: URL for the resource to load as an XML
      '''
      try:
          r = requests.get(url, auth=auth, verify=False)
          return r.text.encode('utf-8')
      except BaseException:
          logger.error("Skipping %s (error parsing the XML)" % url)
      return
docs: Returns an etree.XMLRoot object loaded from the url
      :param str url: URL for the resource to load as an XML