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In order to better meet the needs of partners, Racemi needed to build a private web service to facilitate tighter integration between our applications and theirs. After researching the state of SOAP development in Python, we were able to find a set of tools that met our needs quite well. In this article, we will describe the criteria we used to evaluate the available tools and the process we followed to decide which library was right for us.

python-fedex is light wrapper for Fedex's Web Services SOAP API. The intent is to stay out of the way of the developer as much as possible, meanwhile handling some of the more repetitive and mundane portions of forming and sending SOAP requests.

This article discusses one approach to a SOAP interface for REST services.