How to Implement an XMLRPC Server in Python?

[Guilherme Polo]

On 10/29/08, Zix <saviourms at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I am a newbie to python and trying to get a hang of some of its
>  advanced features through an application I am building. Basically, I'd
>  like to build a weather forecasting web service. The clients should be
>  able to query the service with a location and date and get back the
>  weather forecast.
>
>  After reading a lot on the topic I've settled on the following:
>  * not using any python frameworks (Django, pylons etc)
>  * exposing the service through an XMLRPC API using Python 2.4.3
>  (that's the python version on CentOS 5.2)

Why did you decide to "expose" a web service through xmlrpc instead of
actually exposing it by using a restful web service ?

The links pointed by the previous email should help you, but well, I'm
still surprised on this decision specially because you said you read a
lot about this topic.

>  * using mod_wsgi ( http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ ) instead of
>  mod_python
>
>  So far, I've just created the database design and been focusing on
>  that. But now I realize I've been procrastinating because I am not
>  sure how to really go about implementing this (the docs on xml rpc
>  python module are especially sparse). Please advice.
>
>


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-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves