Package fedex

python-fedex API Documentation

The python-fedex module is a light wrapper around Fedex's Web Services SOAP API. Using the excellent suds SOAP client, the Fedex requests and responses are trivial to work with.

What python-fedex is

A light wrapper around Fedex Web Services SOAP API.
Simple and easy to use.
Minimal by design.

What python-fedex is not

An abstraction layer. python-fedex only assembles the needed SOAP calls and returns a SOAP response through suds. This is easy enough to work with that no abstraction is needed. Doing so would limit your use of the data.
Anything more than a light wrapper.

A note on completeness

python-fedex was created for use with various internal projects over the years. Not all services are implemented but only those needed at the time were implemented. If there is missing functionality, please report an issue so that this module can be made more useful to others. Likewise, feel free to submit patches and service implementations as well if you would like to help.

Getting Started

The best place to get started is by viewing the examples in the 'examples' directory. These should be very self-explanatory. For further details, you may review the API here, or get support by reading the instructions in the appropriately named section below.

The services module is also a good place to start looking at the different objects used for issuing Fedex requests.

As a general tip, the best way to see which attributes are available on WSDL objects is to simply print them, hitting their __str__() method.

Fedex Documentation

If you are wondering what attributes or variables are present, you'll want to refer to the Fedex Web Services documentation at http://fedex.com/developer/. Complete specification documents are there, which correspond very closely with what you'll be able to do with python-fedex.

Getting Support

If you have any questions, problems, ideas, or patch submissions, please visit our Github project and enter an issue in the Issue Tracker.

Version: 2.2.0

Submodules

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fedex.base_service: The base_service module contains classes that form the low level foundations of the Web Service API.
fedex.config: The config module contains the FedexConfig class, which is passed to the Fedex API calls.
fedex.printers: Optional classes used for the convenient printing of FedEx labels from FedexProcessShipmentRequest objects.
- fedex.printers.unix: This module provides a label printing wrapper class for Unix-based installations.
fedex.services: This module contains the wrappers around Fedex Web Service requests which you will want to instantiate and use with a FedexConfig object supplying your static details.
- fedex.services.address_validation_service: Address Validation Service Module
- fedex.services.availability_commitment_service: Service Availability and Commitment Module
- fedex.services.country_service: Country Service Module
- fedex.services.package_movement: Package Movement Information Service
- fedex.services.rate_service: Rate Service Module
- fedex.services.ship_service: Ship Service Module
- fedex.services.track_service: Tracking Service Module

Variables

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VERSION = '2.2.0'

__package__ = None