SoftLayer API Python Client

SoftLayer API bindings for Python. For use with SoftLayer's API.

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 and includes a command-line interface that can be used to manage various SoftLayer services.

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://softlayer-python.readthedocs.org

• API Client: https://softlayer-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/client.html
• Command-line Interface: https://softlayer-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli.html

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 2.6, 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.

Copyright

This software is Copyright (c) 2014 SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. See the bundled LICENSE file for more information.