py_xmlrpc is it supported?

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Mon Jul 19 05:10:08 EDT 2004


Elbert Lev wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> I was experimenting with xmlrpc and found, that SimpleXMLRPCServer is
> rather slow (especially on Windows). Found that there is py_xmlrpc
> package. It was last updated in 2003 and is still on 2.2. Is somebody
> mainaining the package?
> 
> The build for 2.3 takes 5 minutes. When build was done, I found that
> it really works very fast. Can somebody give an outline of differences
> in standard xmlrpc(lib) module and py_xmlrpc.

I have no idea what the difference are exception that xmlrpclib is 
implemented in Python instead of C.

> In particular: can the client use pyxmlrpclib and the server be
> standard SimpleXMLRPCServer?

Both pyxmlrpclib and SimpleXMLRPCServer pass the XML-RPC compliance 
tests so they should interoperate without any problems.

Cheers,
Brian



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