$ mkdir ~/lib/python/WebServices
$ touch ~/lib/python/WebServices/__init__.py
$ cp SOAPpy097/SOAP.py ~/lib/python/WebServices

WebServices.SOAP.faultType: <Fault soap:Client: 
Server did not recognize the value of
HTTP Header SOAPAction: "".>

 #!/usr/bin/env python
#http://xmethods.net/detail.html?id=175
import sys
#Import the SOAP.py machinery
from WebServices import SOAP
remote = SOAP.SOAPProxy(
"http://www.tankebolaget.se/scripts/Haddock.exe/soap/IHaddock",
 namespace="urn:HaddockIntf-IHaddock",
 soapaction="urn:HaddockIntf-IHaddock#Curse"
)
try:
 lang = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
 lang = "us"
result = remote.Curse(LangCode=lang)
print "What captain Haddock had to say: "%s""%result

$ python curse.py
What captain Haddock had to say: "Ectoplasmic Byproduct!"

 #!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, calendar
#Import the SOAP.py machinery
from WebServices import SOAP
CAL_NS = "http://uche.ogbuji.net/eg/ws/simple-cal"
class Calendar:
 def getMonth(self, year, month):
  return calendar.month(year, month)
 def getYear(self, year):
  return calendar.calendar(year)
server = SOAP.SOAPServer(("localhost", 8888))
cal = Calendar()
server.registerObject(cal, CAL_NS)
print "Starting server..."
server.serve_forever()

 import sys, httplib
SERVER_ADDR = "127.0.0.1"
SERVER_PORT = 8888
CAL_NS = "http://uche.ogbuji.net/ws/eg/simple-cal"
BODY_TEMPLATE = """<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
 xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
 xmlns:s="http://uche.ogbuji.net/eg/ws/simple-cal"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
 SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
 <SOAP-ENV:Body>
  <s:getMonth>
   <year xsi:type="xsd:integer">%s</year>
   <month xsi:type="xsd:integer">%s</month>
  </s:getMonth>
 </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"""
def GetMonth():
  year = 2001
  month = 12
  body = BODY_TEMPLATE%(year, month)
  blen = len(body)
  requestor = httplib.HTTP(SERVER_ADDR, SERVER_PORT)
  requestor.putrequest("POST", "cal-server")
  requestor.putheader("Host", SERVER_ADDR)
  requestor.putheader("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset="utf-8"")
  requestor.putheader("Content  reply_body = requestor.getfi-Length", str(blen))
  requestor.putheader("SOAPAction", "http://uche.ogbuji.net/eg/ws/simple-car")
  requestor.endheaders()
  requestor.send(body)
  (status_code, message, reply_headers) = requestor.getreply()
le().read()
  print "status code:", status_code
  print "status message:", message
  print "HTTP reply body:\n", reply_body
if __name__ == "__main__":
  GetMonth()

$ python testcal.py
status code: 200
status message: OK
HTTP reply body:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:SOAP-
ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:SO
AP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<getMonthResponse SOAP-ENC:root="1">
<Result xsi:type="xsd:string">  December 2001
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
        1 2
 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
</Result>
</getMonthResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

$ python curse.py 
*** Outgoing HTTP headers **********************************************
POST /scripts/Haddock.exe/soap/IHaddock HTTP/1.0
Host: www.tankebolaget.se
User-agent: SOAP.py 0.9.7 (actzero.com)
Content-type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Content-length: 523
SOAPAction: "urn:HaddockIntf-IHaddock#Curse"
************************************************************************
*** Outgoing SOAP ******************************************************
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:SOAP-
ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:SO
AP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:Curse xmlns:ns1="urn:HaddockIntf-IHaddock" SOAP-ENC:root="1">
<LangCode xsi:type="xsd:string">us</LangCode>
</ns1:Curse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
************************************************************************
*** Incoming HTTP headers **********************************************
HTTP/1.? 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:40:19 GMT
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 528
Content:
************************************************************************
*** Incoming SOAP ******************************************************
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-
ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xml
soap.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP-ENV:Body><NS1:CurseResponse xmlns:NS1="urn:HaddockIntf-
IHaddock" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><NS1:return 
xsi:type="xsd:string">Anacoluthons!</NS1:return></NS1:CurseRespon
se></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
************************************************************************
What captain Haddock had to say: "Anacoluthons!"

import calendar
return calendar.month(2001, 10)