[Python] Python request resulting in blank response

I've created a script which simply use the request library and basic auth to connect to an API and returns the xml or Json result.

# Imports
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

# Set variables
url = "api"
apiuser = 'test'
apipass = 'testpass'

# CALL API
r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(apiuser, apipass))

# Print Statuscode
print(r.status_code)

# Print XML
xmlString = str(r.text)
print(xmlString)


if but it returns a blank string.

If I was to use a browser to call the api and enter the cretentials I get the following response.

<Response>
<status>SUCCESS</status>
<callId>99999903219032190321</callId>
<result xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="Dummy">
<authorFullName>jack jones</authorFullName>
<authorOrderNumber>1</authorOrderNumber>
</result>
</Response>

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