vmware_updates.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
from distutils.version import LooseVersion

data = urllib.urlopen('https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion.xml').read()
xml = ET.fromstring(data)

updates = []
for meta in xml.findall('metadata'):
    update = {}
    for k in ['url', 'version']:
        update[k] = meta.find(k).text
    updates.append(update)

print updates