Elementree has become the accepted standard for interacting with xml. What is the prevalent web service/SOAP library in use today?
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I'm not sure about an accepted standard, but I've found SOAPpy to be fairly straight-forward and useful library for handling SOAP-based web services.
SOAPy is a SOAP/XML Schema Library for Python. Given either a WSDL or SDL document, SOAPy discovers the published API for a web service and exposes it to Python applications as transparently as possible.
IBM provide a good walk-through and example on their site for getting started with SOAPpy.
SOAPpy's no longer under active development, but is instead being folded into Zolera SOAP Infrastructure (ZSI) at the Python Web Services Project. This project however has alos not seen much activity since November last year.
ConroyP
2008-10-01 21:20:36
I've seen a lot of talk about SOAPpy but it doesn't appear to be an active project. The SF page you linked only has a .1 from 2001.
Sam Corder
2008-10-01 21:29:06
It's not active anymore, but is still useful at the very least as an introduction to web services in Python. Edited the answer to (hopefully!) make project status a little clearer, thanks!
ConroyP
2008-10-01 21:38:20
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soaplib is very easy to use and seems to be active.