title: SharePoint via SOAP using Python
body: <p>I have been following the solution noted here - as this is exactly what I need to achieve;</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/218987/how-can-i-use-sharepoint-via-soap-from-python">how can i use sharepoint (via soap?) from python?</a></p>
  
  <p>however when I run one of the last lines of this code I get the following error;</p>
  
  <p><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; client = SoapClient(url, {'opener' : opener})</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in ?
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\suds\client.py", line 456, in __init__
  AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'options'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any advice or suggestion as to how to solve this most welcome!</p>