which python SOAP framework?

On 9/19/07, John Holme <john.holmehomegain.com> wrote:
>
> I need to pick a SOAP toolkit to use for accessing
Google's AdWords API. The
> Google docs suggest SOAPy, but it seems like there are
some more recent
> entries in the python soap toolkit category. What do
the user's of this list
> suggest?

SOAPy is unmaintained.  ZSI (http://pywebsvcs.so
urceforge.net/) is a
companion SOAP toolkit which was having a bit of a
resurgence six
months ago; I don't know the current status.  It relied on
pyxml,
which is completely unmaintained.  This made it very hard to
use on
windows, especially with python 2.5.

I think turbo gears has a SOAP piece you can use, but I
haven't tried it.

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:53:48PM -0600,
 Andrew Diederich <andrewdiedgmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> SOAPy is unmaintained.  ZSI (http://pywebsvcs.so
urceforge.net/) is a
> companion SOAP toolkit which was having a bit of a
resurgence six
> months ago; I don't know the current status.  It relied
on pyxml,
> which is completely unmaintained.

At a time (things may have changed), I had a lot of problems
with ZSI
and SOAPpy worked better, especially for typing.

A few notes are:

http://w
ww.python.org/about/success/suzanne/
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On 9/20/07, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyernic.fr> wrote:
> At a time (things may have changed), I had a lot of
problems with ZSI
> and SOAPpy worked better, especially for typing.
>
> A few notes are:
>
> http://w
ww.python.org/about/success/suzanne/

 SOAPpy was a bit easier to use.  I can't remember
specifically what
pushed me from SOAPpy to ZSI -- it may have just been the
maintenance
piece.  I had been trying to do SOAP over XMPP, and both
libraries
were very tied to HTTP.  Another issue is both do not follow
the
latest SOAP specs, so if you are trying to integrate with
SOAP web
services written in java or .NET, you are likely to run into
problems
because they'll speak 1.2, and you'll be on 1.1, etc.

The whole thing soured me on SOAP, really.  SOAP is very
complicated,
keeps changing incompatibly, and doesn't work well with
python.

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