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I don't believe that SOAP is especially popular in the Python world. Note that an XML-RPC library is included with Python, but a SOAP library is not. Most "web services" are likely done using REST.

I tried the XML-RPC library and it's very easy to use. However, XML-RPC isn't that common. Do you have any recommendations for using Python with RESTful web services?

There are plenty of REST clients for python. It's just HTTP, after all. Maybe this one

http://code.google.com/p/python-rest-client/

but I'm sure there are many others. Django has one built in as well. But I often just do it manually without loading any helper libraries - all you need is HTTP!

I've had good luck with Suds (https://fedorahosted.org/suds/) in the past.

soaplib is decent

http://trac.optio.webfactional.com/ is the full link

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