WSDL and Python


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Uche Ogbuji released a tutorial at IBM DeveloperWorks in 2001 that guides you through using WSDL in Python.  He also released a library for Python called WSDL4py.

It is interesting that neither of the two “major” Python SOAP implementations seem to support WSDL at all.  I have been spoiled by the tight WSDL integration with C#/.NET and WSDL2Java.  Even the lightweight SOAP::Lite for Perl has WSDL support for the client side.

I might have to take a closer look at WSDL4py (which was hard to locate, the links from IBM’s website didn’t want to work).  It looks like I can use it to generate a WSDL document as well as consume them.

It feels weird getting back into SOAP after spending a lot of time in more lightweight web services.