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python-fedex API Documentation
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The python-fedex module is a light wrapper around Fedex's Web Services SOAP API.
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Using the excellent U{suds<https://fedorahosted.org/suds/>} SOAP client,
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the Fedex requests and responses are trivial to work with.
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- A light wrapper around Fedex Web Services SOAP API.
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- Simple and easy to use.
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What python-fedex is not
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- An abstraction layer. python-fedex only assembles the needed SOAP calls
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and returns a SOAP response through suds. This is easy enough to work with
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that no abstraction is needed. Doing so would limit your use of the data.
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- Anything more than a light wrapper.
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A note on completeness
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python-fedex was created for use with some of my internal projects. For the
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initial release, only the things that I needed at the time were implemented.
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If there is missing functionality, please report an U{issue<http://code.google.com/p/python-fedex/issues/list>}
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so that I may make this module more useful to others. Likewise, feel free to
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submit patches as well if you would like to help.
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The best place to get started is by viewing the examples in the 'examples'
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directory. These should be very self-explanatory. For further details, you
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may review the API here, or get support by reading the instructions in the
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appropriately named section below.
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The L{services} module is also a good place to start looking at the different
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objects used for issuing Fedex requests.
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As a general tip, the best way to see which attributes are available on WSDL
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objects is to simply print them, hitting their __str__() method.
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If you are wondering what attributes or variables are present, you'll want to
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refer to the Fedex Web Services documentation at http://fedex.com/developer/.
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Complete specification documents are there, which correspond very closely with
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what you'll be able to do with python-fedex.
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If you have any questions, problems, ideas, or patch submissions, please visit
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our U{Google Code project<http://code.google.com/p/python-fedex/>} and enter
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an issue in the U{Issue Tracker<http://code.google.com/p/python-fedex/issues/list>}.