# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib2
import elementtree.ElementTree as ET

username = "USERNAME"
password = "PASSWORD"

theurl = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends_timeline.xml"

passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, theurl, username, password)
authhandler =  urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

data = data = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)#.read()
tree = ET.parse(data)
root = tree.getroot()

for status in root:
  user = status.find("user").find("name").text
  text = status.find("text").text
  print "%s: %s" % (user, text)