The library suds allows Python to make SOAP calls (that is, Python is the web service client). We start by installing the suds library on an Ubuntu machine. The Python setuptools are needed to install suds. sudo apt-get install python-setuptools Then we download, unpack and install suds. wget https://fedorahosted.org/releases/s/u/suds/python-suds-0.3.7.tar.gz tar -zxvf python-suds-0.3.7.tar.gz cd