11.22.8 Convenience Functions

11.22.8 Convenience Functions

boolean(

value)

Convert any Python value to one of the XML-RPC Boolean constants, True or False.

dumps(

params[, methodname[, methodresponse[, encoding[, allow_none]]]])

Convert params into an XML-RPC request. or into a response if methodresponse is true. params can be either a tuple of arguments or an instance of the Fault exception class. If methodresponse is true, only a single value can be returned, meaning that params must be of length 1. encoding, if supplied, is the encoding to use in the generated XML; the default is UTF-8. Python's None value cannot be used in standard XML-RPC; to allow using it via an extension, provide a true value for allow_none.

loads(

data)

Convert an XML-RPC request or response into Python objects, a (params, methodname). params is a tuple of argument; methodname is a string, or None if no method name is present in the packet. If the XML-RPC packet represents a fault condition, this function will raise a Fault exception.

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Release 2.4.4c1, documentation updated on 11 October 2006.