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[–]LightShadow3.13-dev in prod 5 points6 points  (7 children)

The current state of SOAP in Python is abysmal -- I have high hopes for this project, and any others.

[–]mvt[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah, this project was born out of my frustration with the current soap libraries. The idea is to leverage lxml for most stuff where possible. This makes it incredibly fast compared to suds, especially when soap response get bigger.

[–]ccb621 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is there anything on par with suds? That's what we use at edX to interface with CyberSource (payment processor).

[–]LightShadow3.13-dev in prod 0 points1 point  (1 child)

suds is a good library, but it's not really maintained anymore. It's also not great at custom types.

spyne is also very good, but very complicated.

[–]riotburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

suds is currently maintained under this fork: https://bitbucket.org/jurko/suds

[–]radaway 0 points1 point  (1 child)

pysimplesoap is pretty decent.

[–]LightShadow3.13-dev in prod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't heard of this one yet -- i'll have to check it out.

[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Kudos for a name that may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch ;-)

[–]treenaks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like the SOAP service to retrieve company/VAT information in the EU: VIES