An XML-RPC client interface for Python.
 
The marshalling and response parser code can also be used to
implement XML-RPC servers.
 
Exported exceptions:
 
  Error          Base class for client errors
  ProtocolError  Indicates an HTTP protocol error
  ResponseError  Indicates a broken response package
  Fault          Indicates an XML-RPC fault package
 
Exported classes:
 
  ServerProxy    Represents a logical connection to an XML-RPC server
 
  Boolean        boolean wrapper to generate a "boolean" XML-RPC value
  DateTime       dateTime wrapper for an ISO 8601 string or time tuple or
                 localtime integer value to generate a "dateTime.iso8601"
                 XML-RPC value
  Binary         binary data wrapper
 
  SlowParser     Slow but safe standard parser (based on xmllib)
  Marshaller     Generate an XML-RPC params chunk from a Python data structure
  Unmarshaller   Unmarshal an XML-RPC response from incoming XML event message
  Transport      Handles an HTTP transaction to an XML-RPC server
  SafeTransport  Handles an HTTPS transaction to an XML-RPC server
 
Exported constants:
 
  True
  False
 
Exported functions:
 
  boolean        Convert any Python value to an XML-RPC boolean
  getparser      Create instance of the fastest available parser & attach
                 to an unmarshalling object
  dumps          Convert an argument tuple or a Fault instance to an XML-RPC
                 request (or response, if the methodresponse option is used).
  loads          Convert an XML-RPC packet to unmarshalled data plus a method
                 name (None if not present).

Modules
		xml.parsers.expat operator re string time

Classes
		Binary Boolean DateTime exceptions.Exception Error Fault ProtocolError ResponseError ExpatParser Marshaller ServerProxy SlowParser Transport SafeTransport Unmarshaller _Method   class Binary       Wrapper for binary data.      __cmp__(self, other) __init__(self, data=None) __str__(self) decode(self, data) encode(self, out)   class Boolean       Boolean-value wrapper.   Use True or False to generate a "boolean" XML-RPC value.      __cmp__(self, other) __init__(self, value=0) __int__(self) __nonzero__(self) __repr__(self) encode(self, out)   class DateTime       DateTime wrapper for an ISO 8601 string or time tuple or localtime integer value to generate 'dateTime.iso8601' XML-RPC value.      __cmp__(self, other) __init__(self, value=0) __repr__(self) __str__(self) decode(self, data) encode(self, out)   class Error(exceptions.Exception)       Base class for client errors.      __getitem__(...) from exceptions.Exception __init__(...) from exceptions.Exception __str__(self)   class ExpatParser            __init__(self, target) # fast expat parser for Python 2.0 and later.  this is about # 50% slower than sgmlop, on roundtrip testing close(self) feed(self, data)   class Fault(Error)       Indicates an XML-RPC fault package.      __getitem__(...) from exceptions.Exception __init__(self, faultCode, faultString, **extra) __repr__(self) __str__(self) from Error   class Marshaller       Generate an XML-RPC params chunk from a Python data structure.   Create a Marshaller instance for each set of parameters, and use the "dumps" method to convert your data (represented as a tuple) to an XML-RPC params chunk.  To write a fault response, pass a Fault instance instead.  You may prefer to use the "dumps" module function for this purpose.      _Marshaller__dump = __dump(self, value, write) __init__(self, encoding=None) dump_array(self, value, write) dump_double(self, value, write) dump_instance(self, value, write) dump_int(self, value, write) dump_long(self, value, write) dump_string(self, value, write, escape=<function escape>) dump_struct(self, value, write, escape=<function escape>) dump_unicode(self, value, write, escape=<function escape>) dumps(self, values)   class ProtocolError(Error)       Indicates an HTTP protocol error.      __getitem__(...) from exceptions.Exception __init__(self, url, errcode, errmsg, headers) __repr__(self) __str__(self) from Error   class ResponseError(Error)       Indicates a broken response package.      __getitem__(...) from exceptions.Exception __init__(...) from exceptions.Exception __str__(self) from Error   class SafeTransport(Transport)       Handles an HTTPS transaction to an XML-RPC server.      _parse_response(self, file, sock) from Transport getparser(self) from Transport make_connection(self, host) parse_response(self, file) from Transport request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0) from Transport send_content(self, connection, request_body) from Transport send_host(self, connection, host) send_request(self, connection, handler, request_body) from Transport send_user_agent(self, connection) from Transport   Server = class ServerProxy       uri [,options] -> a logical connection to an XML-RPC server   uri is the connection point on the server, given as scheme://host/target.   The standard implementation always supports the "http" scheme.  If SSL socket support is available (Python 2.0), it also supports "https".   If the target part and the slash preceding it are both omitted, "/RPC2" is assumed.   The following options can be given as keyword arguments:       transport: a transport factory     encoding: the request encoding (default is UTF-8)   All 8-bit strings passed to the server proxy are assumed to use the given encoding.      _ServerProxy__request = __request(self, methodname, params) __getattr__(self, name) __init__(self, uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=0) __repr__(self) __str__ = __repr__(self)   class ServerProxy       uri [,options] -> a logical connection to an XML-RPC server   uri is the connection point on the server, given as scheme://host/target.   The standard implementation always supports the "http" scheme.  If SSL socket support is available (Python 2.0), it also supports "https".   If the target part and the slash preceding it are both omitted, "/RPC2" is assumed.   The following options can be given as keyword arguments:       transport: a transport factory     encoding: the request encoding (default is UTF-8)   All 8-bit strings passed to the server proxy are assumed to use the given encoding.      _ServerProxy__request = __request(self, methodname, params) __getattr__(self, name) __init__(self, uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=0) __repr__(self) __str__ = __repr__(self)   class SlowParser       Default XML parser (based on xmllib.XMLParser).      __init__(self, target) # this is about 10 times slower than sgmlop, on roundtrip # testing.   class Transport       Handles an HTTP transaction to an XML-RPC server.      _parse_response(self, file, sock) getparser(self) make_connection(self, host) parse_response(self, file) request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0) send_content(self, connection, request_body) send_host(self, connection, host) send_request(self, connection, handler, request_body) send_user_agent(self, connection)   class Unmarshaller       Unmarshal an XML-RPC response, based on incoming XML event messages (start, data, end).  Call close() to get the resulting data structure.   Note that this reader is fairly tolerant, and gladly accepts bogus XML-RPC data without complaining (but not bogus XML).      __init__(self) close(self) data(self, text) end(self, tag, join=<function join>) end_array(self, data) end_base64(self, data) end_boolean(self, data) end_dateTime(self, data) end_dispatch(self, tag, data) end_double(self, data) end_fault(self, data) end_int(self, data) end_methodName(self, data) end_params(self, data) end_string(self, data) end_struct(self, data) end_value(self, data) getmethodname(self) start(self, tag, attrs) xml(self, encoding, standalone)   class _Method            __call__(self, *args) __getattr__(self, name) __init__(self, send, name) # some magic to bind an XML-RPC method to an RPC server. # supports "nested" methods (e.g. examples.getStateName)

Functions
		_binary(data) _datetime(data) _decode(data, encoding, is8bit=<built-in method search of SRE_Pattern object>) _stringify(string) boolean(value, _truefalse=(<Boolean False at 8185b34>, <Boolean True at 8185a84>)) Convert any Python value to XML-RPC 'boolean'. dumps(params, methodname=None, methodresponse=None, encoding=None) data [,options] -> marshalled data   Convert an argument tuple or a Fault instance to an XML-RPC request (or response, if the methodresponse option is used).   In addition to the data object, the following options can be given as keyword arguments:       methodname: the method name for a methodCall packet       methodresponse: true to create a methodResponse packet.     If this option is used with a tuple, the tuple must be     a singleton (i.e. it can contain only one element).       encoding: the packet encoding (default is UTF-8)   All 8-bit strings in the data structure are assumed to use the packet encoding.  Unicode strings are automatically converted, where necessary. escape(s, replace=<function replace>) getparser() getparser() -> parser, unmarshaller   Create an instance of the fastest available parser, and attach it to an unmarshalling object.  Return both objects. loads(data) data -> unmarshalled data, method name   Convert an XML-RPC packet to unmarshalled data plus a method name (None if not present).   If the XML-RPC packet represents a fault condition, this function raises a Fault exception.

Data
		APPLICATION_ERROR = -32500 BufferType = <type 'buffer'> BuiltinFunctionType = <type 'builtin_function_or_method'> BuiltinMethodType = <type 'builtin_function_or_method'> ClassType = <type 'class'> CodeType = <type 'code'> ComplexType = <type 'complex'> DictType = <type 'dictionary'> DictionaryType = <type 'dictionary'> EllipsisType = <type 'ellipsis'> False = <Boolean False at 8185b34> FastMarshaller = None FastParser = None FastUnmarshaller = None FileType = <type 'file'> FloatType = <type 'float'> FrameType = <type 'frame'> FunctionType = <type 'function'> INTERNAL_ERROR = -32603 INVALID_ENCODING_CHAR = -32702 INVALID_METHOD_PARAMS = -32602 INVALID_XMLRPC = -32600 InstanceType = <type 'instance'> IntType = <type 'int'> LambdaType = <type 'function'> ListType = <type 'list'> LongType = <type 'long int'> MAXINT = 2147483647L METHOD_NOT_FOUND = -32601 MININT = -2147483648L MethodType = <type 'instance method'> ModuleType = <type 'module'> NOT_WELLFORMED_ERROR = -32700 NoneType = <type 'None'> PARSE_ERROR = -32700 SERVER_ERROR = -32600 SYSTEM_ERROR = -32400 SgmlopParser = None SliceType = <type 'slice'> StringType = <type 'string'> TRANSPORT_ERROR = -32300 TracebackType = <type 'traceback'> True = <Boolean True at 8185a84> TupleType = <type 'tuple'> TypeType = <type 'type'> UNSUPPORTED_ENCODING = -32701 UnboundMethodType = <type 'instance method'> UnicodeType = <type 'unicode'> WRAPPERS = (<class xmlrpclib.DateTime>, <class xmlrpclib.Binary>, <class xmlrpclib.Boolean>) XRangeType = <type 'xrange'> __file__ = './xmlrpclib.pyc' __name__ = 'xmlrpclib' __version__ = '1.0.1'