Help with Python code - please

Hi,

I need some help with some Python code - please.

What am I doing wrong with the Python code? How can I make the Python code work faster?

Many thanks for any help.

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PYTHON

import time
from pysimplesoap.client import SoapClient

def checkDomain(vars):
  start = time.clock()
  client = SoapClient(wsdl="https://api.xxxxxxx.com.au/?wsdl")
  data = {'resellerID': vars['resellerID'], 'domainName': vars['domainName'], 'apiKey': vars['apiKey']}
  output=client.checkDomain(data)
  #print "available : %s " % output['return']['available']
  print "status : %s " % output['return']['status']
  end = time.clock()
  print "time : %f " % (end - start)

vars = {
  'resellerID': 'xxxxxxx',
  'domainName': 'xxxxxxx.com',
  'apiKey': 'xxxxxxx'
}

checkDomain(vars)

Code (markup):

PYTHON RESSULT
status : AVAILABLE
time : 9.981930
Process finished with exit code 0

Python results time is usually from 4.5 - 10 seconds

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PHP

<?php
$start = microtime(TRUE);
echo domainAvailable($domainName="xxxxxxx.com")."<br />\n";
$finish = microtime(TRUE);
echo "time : ".($finish - $start);

function domainAvailable($domainName){
   $api_id = 'xxxxxxx';
   $api_key = 'xxxxxxx';
   try {
     // New soap connection
     $client = new SoapClient(null, array('location' => 'https://api.xxxxxxx.com.au/?wsdl','uri' => ""));
     // Data array
     $data = array('resellerID' => $api_id, 'apiKey' => $api_key, 'domainName' => $domainName);   
     // Attempt the update with the API
     $output = $client->checkDomain($data);
     $output->status=trim($output->status);
     if ($output->status == "AVAILABLE") {
       return $output->status;
     }elseif($output->status == "UNAVAILABLE") {
       return $output->status;
     }else{
       return 'Domain Status is unknown: ' . $output->status;     }
   } catch (SoapFault $fault) {
     print_r($fault);
   }
}
?>

Code (markup):

PHP RESULT
AVAILABLE
time : 1.0080101490021

PHP results time is usually from 1.0 - 2.5 seconds


Many thanks for your time/ideas - cheers

 

Are you running this code on an apache server by chance?

 

Hi - thanks for your time.

It is the latest/fresh install of Python 2 running on a Win 7 machine - many thanks

 

Try adding this:

import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
logging.getLogger('pysimplesoap.client').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

Code (python):

And add trace=True parameter to the soapclient constructor

need to see what's going on

 

Thanks for your help. I have uploaded the log file - cheers.

 

It's hard to see the bottleneck in big wsdls. I would try it out with SUDs instead. I don't think it's a problem with your code but with the SOAP client and the fact that php is faster than python by default. Check this post for some optimizations if you can apply them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7739613/python-soap-client-use-suds-or-something-else/7852994#7852994

 

If I may ask - why is it important to get it running faster in Python? It's already working in PHP, why not just use that?

 

Thanks so much PDD - I will check it out - thanks for all your help.

@PoPSiCLe thanks - I was hoping to use multithreading and PHP can't do multithreading - so I thought I would move it over to Python - cheers