SoftLayer API Python Client
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SoftLayer API bindings for Python. For use with `SoftLayer's API <http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/softlayerapi>`_.

This library provides a simple interface to interact with SoftLayer's XML-RPC API and provides support for many of SoftLayer API's features like `object masks <http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/Using-Object-Masks-SoftLayerAPI>`_ and a command-line interface that can be used to access various SoftLayer services using the API.

Documentation
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Documentation is available at https://softlayer-api-python-client.readthedocs.org/

Installation
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Install via pip:

.. code-block:: bash

	$ pip install softlayer


Or you can install from source. Download source and run:

.. code-block:: bash
	
	$ python setup.py install


The most up to date version of this library can be found on the SoftLayer
GitHub public repositories: http://github.com/softlayer. Please post to the
SoftLayer forums http://forums.softlayer.com/ or open a support ticket in the
SoftLayer customer portal if you have any questions regarding use of this
library.

System Requirements
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* This library has been tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3.
* A valid SoftLayer API username and key are required to call SoftLayer's API
* A connection to SoftLayer's private network is required to connect to
  SoftLayer’s private network API endpoints.


Copyright
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This software is Copyright (c) 2013 SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
See the bundled LICENSE file for more information.
