PythonLanguage/WebServicesTechniques

A very simple Python example:

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# using http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/
ref = "Genesis 1:1"

from SOAPpy import WSDL
server = WSDL.Proxy('http://www.stgregorioschurchdc.org/wsdl/Bible.wsdl')
r = server.read_bible(ref)
print r

Links:

Python Web Services: pywebsvcs provides client-server libraries for web programming using SOAP and related protocols (WSDL, UDDI, etc).
collection of articles at developerWorks : SOA and Web services : Technical Library : Articles
Python Web services developer: Python SOAP libraries, Part 5: "As with its sister project, ZSI, SOAPpy has enjoyed a recent increase in activity and is now in version 0.11.3. This version includes WSDL support and many other improvements. Uche Ogbuji and Scott Archer try out this new version with the same complex Web service they tried accessing with ZSI 1.4.1 and ran into a different set of difficulties."
Statistical Analytics and Informatics - fpconst was a package I needed when installing the latest version of SOAPpy