nameerror upon calling function

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On Sep 1, 5:05 pm, seancron <seanc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a program that makes a call to a function in a different python
> script that I wrote.  But, when I call the function I get the
> following error:
>
> NameError: global name 'WSDL' is not defined
>
> I can't figure out why I'm getting this error since WSDL should be
> defined. Here are the two scripts:
>
> weatherpy.py
> from xml.dom import minidom
> from SOAPpy import WSDL

The statement above needs to be in libndfdsoap.py, not here.

> from libndfdsoap import ByDaySOAPRequest
>
> wsdlfile = 'http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/
> ndfdXML.wsdl'
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     ByDaySOAPRequest(39.0000, -77.0000, 2004-04-27, 7, '12 hourly')
>
> libndfdsoap.py
> def ByDaySOAPRequest(latitude, longitude, startDate, numDays,
> hrFormat):
>     """Sends a SOAP request using the NDFDgenByDay method and stores
> the
>     response in a file called weather.xml"""
>
>     wsdlfile = 'http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/
> ndfdXML.wsdl'
>     server = WSDL.Proxy(wsdlfile)
>     response = server.NDFDgenByDay(latitude, longitude, startDate,
> numDays,
>                                    hrFormat)
>     xml = open('/weather.xml', 'w')
>     xml.write(response)
>     xml.close()
>     return
>
> Can somebody please show me how to fix this error?

HTH

--
Arnaud