tweets.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import urllib.request
import xml.dom.minidom

fh = urllib.request.urlopen('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/jl_2.xml')
doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(fh)
for stat in doc.getElementsByTagName("status"):
    print('Date: {}\nTweet: {}'.format(stat.getElementsByTagName("created_at")[0].firstChild.nodeValue,
                                       stat.getElementsByTagName("text")[0].firstChild.nodeValue))