This library provides a simple Python client to interact with SoftLayer's XML-RPC API.

A command-line interface is also included and can be used to manage various SoftLayer products and services.

Development on this library is done as a best-effort delivery, and some features of the SoftLayer API may not be available through the client.

Documentation for the Python client is available at http://softlayer.github.io/softlayer-python/.

Additional API documentation can be found on the SoftLayer Development Network:

• SoftLayer API reference
• Object mask information and examples

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 at http://github.com/softlayer. For questions regarding the use of this library please post to Stack Overflow at https://stackoverflow.com/ and your posts with “SoftLayer” so our team can easily find your post. To report a bug with this library please create an Issue on github.

This library relies on the requests library to make HTTP requests. On Python versions below Python 2.7.9, requests has started emitting a security warning (InsecurePlatformWarning) due to insecurities with creating SSL connections. To resolve this, upgrade to Python 2.7.9+ or follow the instructions here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/29099439.

• Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 or 3.6.
• A valid SoftLayer API username and key.
• A connection to SoftLayer's private network is required to use our private network API endpoints.

This software is Copyright (c) 2016 SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.

See the bundled LICENSE file for more information.