ERPpeek is a versatile tool that can be used both as an interactive Command-line Interface (CLI) and as a Python library, with a more convenient API than the one provided by xmlrpclib. It is available from the PyPi index and can be installed with the following:
$ pip install -U erppeek
On a Unix system, if you are installing it system wide, you might need to prepend sudo to the command.
The erppeek library provides a programming interface, wrapping around xmlrpclib, which is similar to the programming interface we have for the server-side code.
Our point here is to provide a glimpse of what ERPpeek has to offer, and not to provide a full explanation of all its features.
We can start by reproducing our first steps with xmlrpclib using erppeek as follows:
>>> import erppeek
>>> api = erppeek.Client('http://localhost:8069', 'v8dev', 'admin', 'admin')
>>> api.common.version()
>>> api.count('res.partner', [])
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