Python and SOAP status

[Waldemar Osuch]

Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> 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/.
> 

I had good experience using soaplib as the server and Java client.

For the client side I found elementsoap (http://effbot.org/downloads/)
to be useful on a couple occasions.

Waldemar