python and SOAP??

[John Thingstad]

There is a SOAP implementation for Python.
I feel the need to spesify that SOAP is a protocol created to send Object transcripts over the HTTP protocol.
CORBA however existes for objects to communicate over the lLAN.
CORBA (or for that matter DCOM) must be fast as it is created to allow a cluster of objects distributed over multiple machines to exchange date.
SOAP works as a much higher level of abstartion. Say communication with a bank.
Further CORBA will usually be blocked from internet accesss. SOAP using HTTP protocol will not.
So... SOAP isn't designed to replace CORBA.
Note that Microsoft is one of the strongest promoters of SOAP and that it dosen't really compete with teir COM+  comittment.