python - Why am I not getting the correct response? -

i complete python noob foreshadowing done, trying parse information out of soap response. body of reponse below:

   <soap:body>   <processmessageresponse xmlns="http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport">      <payload>         <content id="content0">            <customerlookupresponse xmlns="">               <customer>                  <companynumber>zq1</companynumber>                  <customernumber>1051012</customernumber>                  <typecode>i</typecode>                  <lastname>name</lastname>                  <firstname>basic</firstname>                  <middlename/>                  <salutation/>                  <gender/>                  <language/>                  <address1/>                  <address2/>                  <address3/>                  <city/>                  <county/>                  <statecode/>                  <zipcode>0</zipcode>                  <phonenumber>0</phonenumber>                  <businessphone>0</businessphone>                  <businessext>0</businessext>                  <faxnumber>0</faxnumber>                  <birthdate>0</birthdate>                  <driverslicense/>                  <contact/>                  <preferredcontact/>                  <mailcode/>                  <taxexmptnumber/>                  <assignedsalesperson/>                  <customertype/>                  <preferredphone/>                  <cellphone>0</cellphone>                  <pagephone>0</pagephone>                  <otherphone>0</otherphone>                  <otherphonedesc/>                  <email1/>                  <email2/>                  <optionalfield/>                  <allowcontactbypostal/>                  <allowcontactbyphone/>                  <allowcontactbyemail/>                  <businessphoneextension/>                  <internationalbusinessphone/>                  <internationalcellphone/>                  <externalcrossreferencekey>0</externalcrossreferencekey>                  <internationalfaxnumber/>                  <internationalotherphone/>                  <internationalhomephone/>                  <customerpreferredname/>                  <internationalpagerphone/>                  <preferredlanguage/>                  <lastchangedate>20130401</lastchangedate>                  <vehicles/>                  <ccid/>                  <cccd>0</cccd>               </customer>            </customerlookupresponse>         </content>      </payload>   </processmessageresponse> </soap:body> 

and have following code snippet show have done parse out response want:

customer_number = '' customer_first_name = '' customer_last_name = ''  def send_customer_lookup(data):     soap_action = 'http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport/operations/processmessage' source_port = random.randint(6000, 20000)     webservice = httplib.httpsconnection('otqa.arkona.com', source_address=('', source_port))     webservice.putrequest('post', '/opentrack/webservice.asmx?wsdl')     webservice.putheader('user-agent', 'opentrack-heartbeat')     webservice.putheader('content-type', 'application/soap+xml')     webservice.putheader('content-length', '%d' % len(data))     webservice.putheader('soapaction', soap_action)     webservice.endheaders()     webservice.send(data)     response = webservice.getresponse()     response_xml = str(response.read())      doc = et.fromstring(response_xml)     customer in doc.findall('.//{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}payload'):         global customer_number         global customer_first_name         global customer_last_name         customer_number = customer.findtext('{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}customernumber')         customer_first_name = customer.findtext('{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}firstname')         customer_last_name = customer.findtext('{http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport}lastname')     webservice.close()    return customer_number, customer_first_name, customer_last_name, response_xml 

i not why getting output of ' ', ' ', ' ', <xml response>...

it looks overspecifying field names, therefore don't match anything, therefore for customer in ... never runs. try this:

import httplib import xml.etree.elementtree et  def send_customer_lookup(data):     soap_action = 'http://www.starstandards.org/webservices/2005/10/transport/operations/processmessage'     source_port = random.randint(6000, 20000)     httplib.httpsconnection('otqa.arkona.com', source_address=('', source_port)) webservice:         webservice.putrequest('post', '/opentrack/webservice.asmx?wsdl')         webservice.putheader('user-agent', 'opentrack-heartbeat')         webservice.putheader('content-type', 'application/soap+xml')         webservice.putheader('content-length', '%d' % len(data))         webservice.putheader('soapaction', soap_action)         webservice.endheaders()         webservice.send(data)         response_xml = str(webservice.getresponse().read())      doc = et.fromstring(response_xml)     results = []     customer in doc.findall('.//customerlookupresponse/'):         customer_number     = customer.findtext('customernumber')         customer_first_name = customer.findtext('firstname')         customer_last_name  = customer.findtext('lastname')         results.append((customer_number, customer_first_name, customer_last_name))     return results 

also, global variable names evil; presume added them because getting 'variable not defined' errors? should have been clue for-loop not getting run.