What SOAP client libraries exist for Python and where is the documentation for them

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I ve never used SOAP before and I m sort of new to Python   I m doing this to get myself acquainted with both technologies   I ve installed SOAPlib and I ve tried to read their Client documentation  but I don t understand it too well   Is there anything else I can look into which is more suited for being a SOAP Client library for Python   Edit  Just in case it helps  I m using Python 2 6

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I had good experience with SUDS https   fedorahosted org suds  Used their TestSuite as documentation

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Update  2016    If you only need SOAP client  there is well maintained library called zeep  It supports both Python 2 and 3       Update   Additionally to what is mentioned above  I will refer to Python WebServices page which is always up-to-date with all actively maintained and recommended modules to SOAP and all other webservice types     Unfortunately  at the moment  I don t think there is a  best  Python SOAP library  Each of the mainstream ones available has its own pros and cons   Older libraries    SOAPy  Was the  best   but no longer maintained  Does not work on Python 2 5  ZSI  Very painful to use  and development is slow  Has a module called  SOAPpy   which is different than SOAPy  above      Newer  libraries    SUDS  Very Pythonic  and easy to create WSDL-consuming SOAP clients  Creating SOAP servers is a little bit more difficult   This package does not work with Python3  For Python3 see SUDS-py3  SUDS-py3  The Python3 version of SUDS spyne  Creating servers is easy  creating clients a little bit more challenging  Documentation is somewhat lacking  ladon  Creating servers is much like in soaplib  using a decorator   Ladon exposes more interfaces than SOAP at the same time without extra user code needed  pysimplesoap  very lightweight but useful for both client and server - includes a web2py server integration that ships with web2py  SOAPpy  Distinct from the abandoned SOAPpy that s hosted at the ZSI link above  this version was actually maintained until 2011  now it seems to be abandoned too  soaplib  Easy to use python library for writing and calling soap web services  Webservices written with soaplib are simple  lightweight  work well with other SOAP implementations  and can be deployed as WSGI applications  osa  A fast slim easy to use SOAP python client library    Of the above  I ve only used SUDS personally  and I liked it a lot

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I followed the advice of other answers to this question and gave SUDS a try  After using it  in anger  I must agree  SUDS is very nice  Highly recommended   I did run into trouble calling HTTPS-based web services from behind a proxy  At the time of this writing  this affects all Python web-service clients that use urllib2  so I ll document the solution here    The urllib2 module shipping with python 2 6 2 and below will not issue a CONNECT to the proxy for HTTPS-over-HTTP-proxy sessions  This results in a long timeout  or if you are lucky  an error that looks like   abort  error  error 140770FC SSL routines SSL23 GET SERVER HELLO unknown protocol   This was issue1424152 on the Python bug tracker  There are patches attached to the bug report that will fix this in Python 2 x and Python 3 x  The issue is already fixed

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Update  2016    If you only need SOAP client  there is well maintained library called zeep  It supports both Python 2 and 3       Update   Additionally to what is mentioned above  I will refer to Python WebServices page which is always up-to-date with all actively maintained and recommended modules to SOAP and all other webservice types     Unfortunately  at the moment  I don t think there is a  best  Python SOAP library  Each of the mainstream ones available has its own pros and cons   Older libraries    SOAPy  Was the  best   but no longer maintained  Does not work on Python 2 5  ZSI  Very painful to use  and development is slow  Has a module called  SOAPpy   which is different than SOAPy  above      Newer  libraries    SUDS  Very Pythonic  and easy to create WSDL-consuming SOAP clients  Creating SOAP servers is a little bit more difficult   This package does not work with Python3  For Python3 see SUDS-py3  SUDS-py3  The Python3 version of SUDS spyne  Creating servers is easy  creating clients a little bit more challenging  Documentation is somewhat lacking  ladon  Creating servers is much like in soaplib  using a decorator   Ladon exposes more interfaces than SOAP at the same time without extra user code needed  pysimplesoap  very lightweight but useful for both client and server - includes a web2py server integration that ships with web2py  SOAPpy  Distinct from the abandoned SOAPpy that s hosted at the ZSI link above  this version was actually maintained until 2011  now it seems to be abandoned too  soaplib  Easy to use python library for writing and calling soap web services  Webservices written with soaplib are simple  lightweight  work well with other SOAP implementations  and can be deployed as WSGI applications  osa  A fast slim easy to use SOAP python client library    Of the above  I ve only used SUDS personally  and I liked it a lot

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I had good experience with SUDS https   fedorahosted org suds  Used their TestSuite as documentation

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SUDS is the way to go  no question about it

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I believe soaplib has deprecated its SOAP client   sender   in favor of suds  At this point soaplib is focused on being a web framework agnostic SOAP server   receiver    Currently soaplib is under active development and is usually discussed in the Python SOAP mailing list   http   mail python org mailman listinfo soap

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suds is pretty good  I tried SOAPpy but didn t get it to work in quite the way I needed whereas suds worked pretty much straight away

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We released a new library  PySimpleSOAP  that provides support for simple and functional client server  It goals are  ease of use and flexibility  no classes  autogenerated code or xml is required   WSDL introspection and generation  WS-I standard compliance  compatibility  including Java AXIS   NET and Jboss WS   It is included into Web2Py to enable full-stack solutions  complementing other supported protocols such as XML RPC  JSON  AMF-RPC  etc     If someone is learning SOAP or want to investigate it  I think it is a good choice to start

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Could this help  http   users skynet be pascalbotte rcx-ws-doc python htm SOAPPY  I found it by searching for wsdl and python  with the rational being  that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers

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Im using SOAPpy with Python 2 5 3 in a production setting   I had to manually edit a couple of files in SOAPpy  something about header code being in the wrong place  but other than that it worked and continues to do so very reliably

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SUDS is easy to use  but is not guaranteed to be re-entrant  If you re keeping the WSDL Client   object around in a threaded app for better performance  there s some risk involved  The solution to this risk  the clone   method  throws the unrecoverable Python 5508 bug  which seems to print but not really throw an exception  Can be confusing  but it works  It is still by far the best Python SOAP client

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Update  2016    If you only need SOAP client  there is well maintained library called zeep  It supports both Python 2 and 3       Update   Additionally to what is mentioned above  I will refer to Python WebServices page which is always up-to-date with all actively maintained and recommended modules to SOAP and all other webservice types     Unfortunately  at the moment  I don t think there is a  best  Python SOAP library  Each of the mainstream ones available has its own pros and cons   Older libraries    SOAPy  Was the  best   but no longer maintained  Does not work on Python 2 5  ZSI  Very painful to use  and development is slow  Has a module called  SOAPpy   which is different than SOAPy  above      Newer  libraries    SUDS  Very Pythonic  and easy to create WSDL-consuming SOAP clients  Creating SOAP servers is a little bit more difficult   This package does not work with Python3  For Python3 see SUDS-py3  SUDS-py3  The Python3 version of SUDS spyne  Creating servers is easy  creating clients a little bit more challenging  Documentation is somewhat lacking  ladon  Creating servers is much like in soaplib  using a decorator   Ladon exposes more interfaces than SOAP at the same time without extra user code needed  pysimplesoap  very lightweight but useful for both client and server - includes a web2py server integration that ships with web2py  SOAPpy  Distinct from the abandoned SOAPpy that s hosted at the ZSI link above  this version was actually maintained until 2011  now it seems to be abandoned too  soaplib  Easy to use python library for writing and calling soap web services  Webservices written with soaplib are simple  lightweight  work well with other SOAP implementations  and can be deployed as WSGI applications  osa  A fast slim easy to use SOAP python client library    Of the above  I ve only used SUDS personally  and I liked it a lot

User · Answer

I followed the advice of other answers to this question and gave SUDS a try  After using it  in anger  I must agree  SUDS is very nice  Highly recommended   I did run into trouble calling HTTPS-based web services from behind a proxy  At the time of this writing  this affects all Python web-service clients that use urllib2  so I ll document the solution here    The urllib2 module shipping with python 2 6 2 and below will not issue a CONNECT to the proxy for HTTPS-over-HTTP-proxy sessions  This results in a long timeout  or if you are lucky  an error that looks like   abort  error  error 140770FC SSL routines SSL23 GET SERVER HELLO unknown protocol   This was issue1424152 on the Python bug tracker  There are patches attached to the bug report that will fix this in Python 2 x and Python 3 x  The issue is already fixed

User · Answer

SUDS is easy to use  but is not guaranteed to be re-entrant  If you re keeping the WSDL Client   object around in a threaded app for better performance  there s some risk involved  The solution to this risk  the clone   method  throws the unrecoverable Python 5508 bug  which seems to print but not really throw an exception  Can be confusing  but it works  It is still by far the best Python SOAP client

User · Answer

I believe soaplib has deprecated its SOAP client   sender   in favor of suds  At this point soaplib is focused on being a web framework agnostic SOAP server   receiver    Currently soaplib is under active development and is usually discussed in the Python SOAP mailing list   http   mail python org mailman listinfo soap

User · Answer

We d used SOAPpy from Python Web Services  but it seems that ZSI  same source  is replacing it

User · Answer

We released a new library  PySimpleSOAP  that provides support for simple and functional client server  It goals are  ease of use and flexibility  no classes  autogenerated code or xml is required   WSDL introspection and generation  WS-I standard compliance  compatibility  including Java AXIS   NET and Jboss WS   It is included into Web2Py to enable full-stack solutions  complementing other supported protocols such as XML RPC  JSON  AMF-RPC  etc     If someone is learning SOAP or want to investigate it  I think it is a good choice to start

User · Answer

In my conclusion we have this   Soap client side   use only Suds-jurko  updated 2016  suds is well maintained and updated   UPDATE 06 2017  suds-jurko library is not updated and apparently abandoned    I tested zeep library but got limitations around tokens  by now just support UsernameToken  i report a bug to create timestamp token and author update the code to fix it   Zeep start good and has good documentation   so i recently migrated my code from suds to zeep and works fine   Soap server side   We have TGWS  soaplib  pysimplesoap not tested  IMHO use and help soaplib must be the choice   Best regards

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As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own   It s actually not that difficult and I suspect that s the reason there aren t better Python SOAP libraries out there

User · Answer

As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own   It s actually not that difficult and I suspect that s the reason there aren t better Python SOAP libraries out there

User · Answer

suds is pretty good  I tried SOAPpy but didn t get it to work in quite the way I needed whereas suds worked pretty much straight away

User · Answer

Could this help  http   users skynet be pascalbotte rcx-ws-doc python htm SOAPPY  I found it by searching for wsdl and python  with the rational being  that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers

User · Answer

We d used SOAPpy from Python Web Services  but it seems that ZSI  same source  is replacing it

User · Answer

SUDS is the way to go  no question about it

User · Answer

I had good experience with SUDS https   fedorahosted org suds  Used their TestSuite as documentation

User · Answer

Just an FYI warning for people looking at SUDS  until this ticket is resolved  SUDS does not support the  choice  tag in WSDL   https   fedorahosted org suds ticket 342  see  suds and choice tag

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Could this help  http   users skynet be pascalbotte rcx-ws-doc python htm SOAPPY  I found it by searching for wsdl and python  with the rational being  that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers

User · Answer

As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own   It s actually not that difficult and I suspect that s the reason there aren t better Python SOAP libraries out there

User · Answer

Im using SOAPpy with Python 2 5 3 in a production setting   I had to manually edit a couple of files in SOAPpy  something about header code being in the wrong place  but other than that it worked and continues to do so very reliably

User · Answer

Could this help  http   users skynet be pascalbotte rcx-ws-doc python htm SOAPPY  I found it by searching for wsdl and python  with the rational being  that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers

User · Answer

We d used SOAPpy from Python Web Services  but it seems that ZSI  same source  is replacing it

User · Answer

I had good experience with SUDS https   fedorahosted org suds  Used their TestSuite as documentation

User · Answer

Just an FYI warning for people looking at SUDS  until this ticket is resolved  SUDS does not support the  choice  tag in WSDL   https   fedorahosted org suds ticket 342  see  suds and choice tag

User · Answer

Update  2016    If you only need SOAP client  there is well maintained library called zeep  It supports both Python 2 and 3       Update   Additionally to what is mentioned above  I will refer to Python WebServices page which is always up-to-date with all actively maintained and recommended modules to SOAP and all other webservice types     Unfortunately  at the moment  I don t think there is a  best  Python SOAP library  Each of the mainstream ones available has its own pros and cons   Older libraries    SOAPy  Was the  best   but no longer maintained  Does not work on Python 2 5  ZSI  Very painful to use  and development is slow  Has a module called  SOAPpy   which is different than SOAPy  above      Newer  libraries    SUDS  Very Pythonic  and easy to create WSDL-consuming SOAP clients  Creating SOAP servers is a little bit more difficult   This package does not work with Python3  For Python3 see SUDS-py3  SUDS-py3  The Python3 version of SUDS spyne  Creating servers is easy  creating clients a little bit more challenging  Documentation is somewhat lacking  ladon  Creating servers is much like in soaplib  using a decorator   Ladon exposes more interfaces than SOAP at the same time without extra user code needed  pysimplesoap  very lightweight but useful for both client and server - includes a web2py server integration that ships with web2py  SOAPpy  Distinct from the abandoned SOAPpy that s hosted at the ZSI link above  this version was actually maintained until 2011  now it seems to be abandoned too  soaplib  Easy to use python library for writing and calling soap web services  Webservices written with soaplib are simple  lightweight  work well with other SOAP implementations  and can be deployed as WSGI applications  osa  A fast slim easy to use SOAP python client library    Of the above  I ve only used SUDS personally  and I liked it a lot

User · Answer

In my conclusion we have this   Soap client side   use only Suds-jurko  updated 2016  suds is well maintained and updated   UPDATE 06 2017  suds-jurko library is not updated and apparently abandoned    I tested zeep library but got limitations around tokens  by now just support UsernameToken  i report a bug to create timestamp token and author update the code to fix it   Zeep start good and has good documentation   so i recently migrated my code from suds to zeep and works fine   Soap server side   We have TGWS  soaplib  pysimplesoap not tested  IMHO use and help soaplib must be the choice   Best regards

User · Answer

We d used SOAPpy from Python Web Services  but it seems that ZSI  same source  is replacing it

User · Answer

As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own   It s actually not that difficult and I suspect that s the reason there aren t better Python SOAP libraries out there

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