A utility function to marry the connecting and reading functions.

def parse_schedules(username, password, importer, progress, utc_start=None, 
                    utc_stop=None):
    """A utility function to marry the connecting and reading functions."""

    file_obj = get_file_object(username, password, utc_start, utc_stop)
    process_file_object(file_obj, importer, progress)