Getting SOAP working w/ Activestate Python?

[Trent Mick]

[Robb Shecter wrote]
> Hi,
> 
> I've got Activestate Python installed (Python 2.2.1), and used the 
> Python Package Manager to install the two packages:
> 
> ZSI 1.1
> PyXML 0.7
> 
> However, I haven't gotten any demos to work yet.

What demos were you trying?

> 
> These two packages are the two available from Activestate.  Are they 
> compatible?  

ZSI should state whether is requires PyXML or not. (The base Python XML
support vs. PyXML is a little bit of a mess.) I found this:
    "The ZSI module, which is part of the Python Web Services project at
    Sourceforge, requires Python 2.0 or later and PyXML 0.6 or later."
here:
    http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1572
Check out this link for more info:
    http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/


> Why should I have to install PyXML explicitly?  Isn't XML 
> support built in to the latest version of Python?

Python *does* ship with some XML support. You get "more" support via the
PyXML package. I am no XML in Python expert but my understanding is that
if you do any serious XML work in Python then you generally want the
PyXML package installed. PyXML is distributed separately from Python
probably a little bit for historical reasons (some XML stuff wasn't
ready when Python X.X was ready to ship) and more so because development
on Python's XML support was (and perhaps still is) moving faster than
development of Python itself.


Cheers,
Trent

-- 
Trent Mick
TrentM at ActiveState.com