XML/KML not well formed

Question

I'm trying to parse a KML service using the following:

import requests
import responses
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
response = requests.get('http://206.74.144.42/eitms/roadconditions/')
data = str(response.content)
tree = ET.fromstring(data)

but it keeps telling me that the XML is 'not well formed' like so:

not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1

what does this mean and how do I fix it? Using Python 3.6.

Answer 1

Call fromstring(response.content) directly, without converting it with str().