generic_password = "GenericOneTwoThree"

def projxml(projid,generic_password):
    ''' function to load a single project xml response'''
    ProjectID = "global"
    partial_url = 'http://wwwin-ppm-prod-ws.cisco.com/ppmws/api/v2/projects/projectById/'
    request = urllib2.Request(partial_url+projid)
    username = "generic_userid.gen"
    password = generic_password
    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('n', '')
    request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
    request.add_header("Accept", "application/xml")
    request.add_header("x-ppm-requested-by", "tlombard")
    result = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    data = etree.parse(result)
    root1 = data.getroot()
    return root1