Python Web Services - HOW TO 4 - XML-RPC Client

I tried to explain how to write web service server code with Python using ZSI and XML-RPC before and also i explained how to write a web service client code with Python using ZSI too. Now i want to explain how to write a web service client code with Python using XML-RPC lib.

It is simple than using ZSI again. We just first import our xmlrpclib module;

#!/usr/bin/python

import xmlrpclib

Then we give the url and create a server object;

server = xmlrpclib.Server("http://localhost/cgi-bin/index.py")

and lastly we request to the methods we want from web service with this object;

print server.asillyfunction("hello world")

Also there are methods in xmlrpclib like, to see which methods are the web service provides;

for method in server.system.listMethods():

print method

Here is the sample code. And here is a better client code. Also i want to mention again, i wrote down this code just to test my web service code that i wrote in here.