Posting here on what worked for me. In looking at https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebServices  1. ran pip2 install --user suds  as the splunk user. 2. afterwards, copy ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/suds/ to $splunk_home/etc/apps/<my_app>/bin 3. if I now run a python script under $splunk_home/etc/apps/<my_app>/bin using the built in splunk python (ie /opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd python), I can run these commands >>> from suds.client import Client >>> client=Client("http://www.dneonline.com/calculator.asmx?WSDL") >>> print client Suds ( https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ ) version: 0.4 GA build: R699-20100913 Service ( Calculator ) tns="http://tempuri.org/" Prefixes (0) Ports (2): (CalculatorSoap) Methods (4): Add(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Divide(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Multiply(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Subtract(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Types (0): (CalculatorSoap12) Methods (4): Add(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Divide(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Multiply(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Subtract(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Types (0): >>> client.service.Add(5,6) 11 I could not get this to work with zeep though. ... View more