Python SOAP Request using Requests

If this helps anyone, that would be splendid…

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import requests
from XML import XML
     
request = u"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
              
                  
                  
                      
                          GBP
                          CHF
                      
                  
              """

encoded_request = request.encode('utf-8')

headers = {"Host": "www.webservicex.net",
           "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=UTF-8",
           "Content-Length": len(encoded_request)}
                          
response = requests.post(url="http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx",
                         headers = headers,
                         data = encoded_request,
                         verify=False)
                         
print unicode(XML(response.text))
    

The XML thingamy used is my own. I've just used it to format the response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

    
        
            1.4279