parsing response from SOAPpy request

[seancron]

I'm using SOAPpy to access weather data from the NOAA National Digital
Forecast Database XML Web Service [1] and I've been having
trouble figuring out how to parse the data.

The response comes back as XML document but when I check it with
type(result) it shows the the response is a string.  Does anyone have
any
suggestions on getting relevant data?

Thanks,
-Sean

[1] http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/