Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: FYI: Open Source Scripting Layer For Cocoa

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 01:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>>>> Well, if none of the online currency exchange rate sites let you
>>>> scrape the going rate, you could always fake one that returns a 
>>>> random
>>>> rate within some range and scrape that.  Not as good as the Real
>>>> Thing, but it might do.
>>>
>>> See the demo services at.....
>>>
>>>     http://xmethods.com/
>>>
>>> .... as any of them could easily be wrapped by a Cocoa/Python app.
>>
>> Ah, brilliant! There's a currency converter in there.
>>
>> Now the problem has been replaced by a new one: does anyone here know 
>> how to talk to a soap service from Python, and do we have all the 
>> necessary tools available in a standard Python installation?
>
> Python does not come with any SOAP stuff.  However, Twisted also does 
> SOAP and there's also a couple blocking implementations at: 
> http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/

Ok, that's nice for a more involved example, but not for "embedding 
Python in ObjC 101". Too ba, I'll try and come up with something else:-)
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