xmlrpc.client.loads()

xmlrpc.client.loads(data, use_datetime=False, use_builtin_types=False)

Convert an XML-RPC request or response into Python objects, a (params, methodname). params is a tuple of argument; methodname is a string, or None if no method name is present in the packet. If the XML-RPC packet represents a fault condition, this function will raise a Fault exception. The use_builtin_types flag can be used to cause date/time values to be presented as datetime.datetime objects and binary data to be presented as bytes objects; this flag is false by default.

The obsolete use_datetime flag is similar to use_builtin_types but it applies only to date/time values.