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/. -- Heikki Toivonen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
