Python and SOAP status

[Heikki Toivonen]

I have started researching the Python SOAP (and web services in general)
options out there. Python 2.5 should be supported.

I used Python for some web services stuff (demo quality) a few years
back without major problems. However, it seems many of the libraries I
remember from that time have become dormant or have been explicitly
discontinued. A colleague also commented that he run into lots of
problems trying to use Python for SOAP a year ago.

What is your experience with Python SOAP, WSDL etc. libraries? What are
the good, maintained options out there right now? How is standards
compliance, how robust are the libraries, how do they interoperate with
other libraries written in other languages (I am especially interested
in interoperability with Java and PHP web services stacks).

It seems like the top 3 candidates on my list are ZSI
(http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/), soaplib
(http://trac.optio.webfactional.com/) and suds
(http://trac.optio.webfactional.com/). If you have any experience in
using these, I'd very much like to hear from you.

There was quite a depressing post about ZSI's status at
http://www.kunxi.org/archives/2008/01/pythonsoap-second-encounter/.

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  Heikki Toivonen