XML : SOAP client in python, how to replicate with XML

I am using suds to send XML and I got my request working, but I'm really confused by how to replicate my results using XML. I have the XML request that my suds client is sending by using:

  from suds.client import Client  ulr = "xxxxxxx"  client = Client(url)    ...    client.last_received.str()    

but I'm not sure where I would send that request to if I was using the requests library. How would I replicate the request from the suds client in a python request?