SoftLayer API Python Client

This code provides a simple Python library to use the SoftLayer API.

Overview

This library provides a simple interface to interact with SoftLayer's XML-RPC API and provides support for many of SoftLayer API's features like object masks.

Installation

Install via pip:

pip install softlayer

Or you can install from source. Download source and run:

python setup.py install

The most up to date version of this library can be found on the SoftLayer GitHub public repositories: http://github.com/softlayer. Please post to the SoftLayer forums http://forums.softlayer.com/ or open a support ticket in the SoftLayer customer portal if you have any questions regarding use of this library.

System Requirements

• This library has been tested on Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3.
• A valid SoftLayer API username and key are required to call SoftLayer's API
• A connection to SoftLayer's private network is required to connect to SoftLayer’s private network API endpoints.

Suggested Reading

• Our wiki
• The API
• CLI tool

Copyright

This software is Copyright (c) 2013 SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. See the bundled LICENSE file for more information.