Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Calling SOAP services from Python
Lecture: Introduction to the suds package
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In Python, the best way to access Soap services,
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is to use this package called Suds, you got to love the name, right,
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Soap Suds, it's beautiful, so it's a great name and you can see,
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Suds is a lightweight, Soap Python client for consuming web services,
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and it has things like no class generation, you can just do this in runtime,
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in runtime it will read the wsdl and it will actually generate
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all the information it needs for you to work with, it provides an object API
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which means you create classes and interact with it by calling functions
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on those classes just like we saw in the tooling example,
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and it supports a bunch of Soap protocols, so this is great, right,
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well, if you look a little carefully here and- hm, not so great.
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Modified five years ago. Now, technically it still works but it has problems
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namely it only supports Python 2 and because Python 2 is end of life,
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in 3 years, this is unfortunate, so are we just out of luck, well,
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I mean, obviously this is open source, somebody could come along
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and fix this problem because whoever created it has kind of left it to wither over here.
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But luckily, a guy named Jurko already did, so thank you very much for that Jurko,
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you can see over here on bitbucket.org/jurko/suds
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that now we have a Python 3 compatible version of this,
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it said it's hopefully a temporary fork
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but given that other one was updated 5 years ago,
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I think temporary is becoming permanent.
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So nonetheless, thank you Jurko, we're going to use the suds-jurko package
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rather than the straight up suds for working with Soap services in Python
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especially in Python 3 right.
