wsdl (soap) without code generation

[João Neves]

On Apr 2, 3:06 pm, Thomas Guettler <h... at tbz-pariv.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I looked for a solution to talk to a web service which
> offers its signature with a wsdl file.
>
> I googled for 'wsdl python' and found ZSI.
>
> This project uses code generation. That's something
> I don't like.
>
> The book 'dive into python' uses SOAPpy. This looks
> better since it does not generate source code.
> But the last release and first release is from 2001.
>
> ZSI seems to have integrated SOAPpy.
>
> I am new to WSDL and SOAP. Do I need a WSDL parsing
> routine at all? I guess my wsdl definition won't change
> during the next years. So I could read the wsdl with
> my eyes and make a fitting soap call...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Thomas Guettler,http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
> E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de

I've been using SOAPpy directly in one of my projects, and so far my
experience couldn't be better.
SOAPpy can handle (hand-written) WSDLs well enough for me, and so far
it has given me no problems at all.