There is xmlrpclib inlcuded per default and it does all the XML stuff, so i think you can easily get away far more readable then what is shown in the python rei

There is xmlrpclib inlcuded per default and it does all the XML stuff, so i think you can easily get away far more readable then what is shown in the python reimplementation of the PHP function. http://docs.python.org/2/library/xmlrpclib.html#example-of-client-usage http://docs.python.org/2/library/xmlrpclib.html#example-of-c... It just doesn't have xmlrpc_encode_request() with the exact method signature. P.S.: I am wondering if it is normal to have functions marked as EXPERIMENTAL with a biiiig warning sign for 11 years in the language? That really scares me. This function has been introduced in PHP 4.1.0 which was releases in 10-Dec-2001... That's just... edit: removed rant about xmlrpc_encode_request being built-in. It's a non-default extension, apparently..