Zeep inspects the WSDL document and generates the corresponding code to use the services and types in the document. This provides an easy to use programmatic interface to a SOAP server.

The emphasis is on SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, however Zeep also offers support for HTTP Get and Post bindings.

Parsing the XML documents is done by using the lxml library. This is the most performant and compliant Python XML library currently available. This results in major speed benefits when processing large SOAP responses.