Greetings; brand-new to SOAP, brand-new to the suds library, I hope I use the correct terms to describe my problem.

Executive summary: I need to send elements with leading underscores in their names but they are modified/dropped by suds.

1: Why does the code modify element names with leading underscores?  e.g. '__limit' becomes '_limit' (or is it '@_limit')
2: is there a workaround?



I have a service which, in general, is working fine with suds as a client.  The vendor's docs tell me that the message style 
is "Document/Literal".   So far I'm doing fine just calling the service ]= RPC-style:

>>> client = Client(url, transport)
>>>
>>> rslt = client.service.getKeys(name='foo')
>>>

However, for some of my queries, I need to set/send parameters with names that have leading underscores.  But, I have found 
that the appenders deliberately modify these names and do something other than expected (by myself, at least) with the 
values.  Thus, they are just dropped.


This example 
below is my experiment in injecting raw SOAP with __inject, and it worked fine:

msg2 = """\
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="http://www.service-now.com/sys_journal_field
  xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
   <ns1:Body>
      <ns0:getKeys>
         <ns0:name>NOYB</ns0:name>
         <ns0:__limit>1</ns0:__limit>
      </ns0:getKeys>
   </ns1:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
"""

But if I send "client.service.getKeys(name='foo', __limit=1)", it hits this code:

  https://fedorahosted.org/suds/browser/trunk/suds/mx/appender.py#L191

Even more interesting (and what makes me think that it's a logical bug) is that this is preventing me from using a 
message created from the WSDL:

>>> getKeysMessage = uut.factory.create('tns:getKeys')
>>> print getKeysMessage
(getKeys){
   element = None
   element_id = None
   name = None
   sys_created_by = None
   sys_created_on = None
   value = None
   __use_view = None
   __encoded_query = None
   __limit = None
   __first_row = None
   __last_row = None
 }

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds/mx/core.py", line 88, in append
    self.appender.append(parent, content)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds/mx/appender.py", line 118, in append
    appender.append(parent, content)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds/mx/appender.py", line 275, in append
    Appender.append(self, child, cont)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds/mx/appender.py", line 200, in append
    self.marshaller.append(parent, content)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds/mx/core.py", line 87, in append
    if self.start(content):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds/mx/literal.py", line 102, in start
    raise TypeNotFound(content.tag)
TypeNotFound: Type not found: '__use_view'



If I delattr all of the elements with leading underscores, then calling the method with that object works just fine.

Can anyone explain what's going on?  Why is startswith('_') looked for in the code?  What's the workaround?

Thanks!