WAPI, or WOMBAT API, is a SOAP-based API built in the context of the WOMBAT FP7 project (http://www.wombat-project.eu) to facilitate the remote access and exploration of security-related datasets.
The suds project is a python soap web services client lib. Suds leverages python meta programming to provide an intuative API for consuming web services. Runtime objectification of types defined in the WSDL is provided without class generation.
The EU Provenance project developed an architecture to document a data generating process in a distributed environment. The Python Client Side Library (CSL) enables the development of provenance-aware Python applications.