> it is given how to > >create > > the SOAP ENVELOPE using > > httplib, so why bother about using SOAPpy...?? > > You can also read web pages using http POST and GET messages > to a socket using the socket library, but most folks find it easier > to use urllib. > > For that matter you can display output to sys.stdout, so > why bother with print? > > The library functions make things easier and more consistent. > Somebody else has debugged the code so you don't have to...
to further the analogy, you could say why bother with urllib and use httplib instead, or forget all those and use TCP sockets, or drop TCP in favor of UDP, or protocols? who needs protocols? just use raw sockets! (i'll stop here... you get the picture.) :-) you're basically using high-level libraries as an abstraction layer (to make developing apps easier) to hide the messiness of the lower-level implementation and details which may not be applicable to your work. i mean, why use Python when you can do it in C? -- wesley _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
