Python WS toolkit

[Tamas Budavari]

FYI, the new ZSI module for Python 2+ has a wsdl2py tool that I
successfully ran on the NED name resolver's WSDL file as a test
to generate the client side code: a module called NED_services. 
BTW, the NED wrapper WS written in C# is here:

	http://voservices.net/ned

These few lines below invoke the WS and print out RA, Dec for
Messier 101 for a start:

<code lang="py">
from NED_services import *
ned = NEDLocator().getNEDSoap()
#--- build soap message
request = ObjByNameSoapInWrapper()
request._objname = "Messier 101"
#--- make a remote call
response = ned.ObjByName(request)
print response._ObjByNameResult._ra, response._ObjByNameResult._dec
</code>

Okay, so it's not as pretty as C# but close to Java ;-)
BTW, it took me 10 minutes to build this from scratch 
including the installation.

Cheers, T.

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Tamas Budavari

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