XML : Python requests.get() looping through response?

I'm pulling data from an API with the following:

  url = "http://sitename"  response = requests.get(url)  data = response.text  print (data)    

I get the output of raw xml, below is the browser output:

  <projects count="8" href="/httpAuth/app/rest/projects/">  <project id="_Root" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root1" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root2" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root3" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root4" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root5" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root6" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  <project id="_Root7" name="" description="" href="" webUrl=""/>  </projects>    

How do I get each rows information into usable form, such as looping through the list for each project id I pull the id/name/desc/href of each and store it?

I tried doing an conversion to json in the accept headers section for requests.get() but it still spit back xml data so I think I'm stuck working with this content structure.