scrap.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

xml_data = """<xml>
<response>
<results>
  <result>
    <fname>Brian</fname>
    <lname>Jones</lname>
    <gender>M</gender>
    <office_phone_ext>777</office_phone_ext>
    <mobile_phone>201-555-1212</mobile_phone>
  </result>
  <result>
    <fname>Molly</fname>
    <lname>Jones</lname>
    <home_phone>201-555-1234</home_phone>
  </result>
</results>
</response>
</xml>"""

xml = BeautifulStoneSoup(xml_data)

for result in xml.findAll("result"):
	home_phone = getattr(result.home_phone,'string',None)
	print home_phone