soap request includes a hyphenated field, don't know how to set it

[straycat000 at yahoo.com]

I'm trying to use suds to create a SOAP request.  The request includes
a hyphenated field.  Python won't let me set to hyphenated variables.
Is there a way around this?  Don't tell me to use an underscore
because the SOAP server won't recognize it.

The request is supposed to look like this:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <scma:user-verified-media-request xmlns:scma="http://
services.bamnetworks.com/media/types/2.0">
      <scma:event-id>164-251340-2009-03-12</scma:event-id>
      <scma:subject>LIVE_EVENT_COVERAGE</scma:subject>
    </scma:user-verified-media-request>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Working my way through suds, I have something like this:

>>> event = client.factory.create('ns0:UserVerifiedEvent')
>>> print event
(UserVerifiedEvent){
   event-id = None
   user-verified-content[] = <empty>
   domain-specific-attributes =
      (MediaAttributes){
         domain-attribute[] = <empty>
      }
 }
>>> event.event-id = "164-251340-2009-03-12"
SyntaxError: can't assign to operator

And there's my problem.  I don't know how to set event-id within the
UserVerifiedEvent because of that hyphen.

For anyone who knows suds and SOAP, here's the wsdl to get you this
far:

>>> import suds
>>> from suds.client import Client
>>> url = 'http://www.mlb.com/flash/mediaplayer/v4/wsdl/MediaService.wsdl'
>>> client = Client(url)

Any ideas or python magic to get around this hyphen problem (and I
can't change that to event_id or the server won't recognize it.)

Thanks,
Matthew