Python Web Service Recommendations

Question

I am looking to create a web service in Python, but none of the libraries/tools I have looked at appear to be actively maintained. I am looking to build a server using SOAP. Don't need to build a client at the moment as I can test using soapUI but will need to write a client at some point.

The ones I have already looked at include

• ZSI
• SOAPpy
• SUDS
• rpclib (formerly soaplib)

Can anyone recommend any more that might be maintained a bit more regularly?

Answer 1

Try twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/

Its heavily used project to various web services. You can build almost anything from it.

Talking about SOAP here is twisted support for SOAP from docs: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/xmlrpc.html#auto4

Last change was few hour ago - so it is actively maintained.

You may want to read this:

• Python: How can I use Twisted as the transport for SUDS?
• What is a good framework for a soap service?
• Python SOAP client library using a HTTPS connection with keys