gistfile1.txt

>>> vatnumber.check_vies('IT16145131')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/vatnumber.py", line 1098, in check_vies
    server = WSDL.Proxy(VIES_URL)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/SOAPpy/WSDL.py", line 62, in __init__
    self.wsdl = reader.loadFromStream(stream, wsdlsource)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/SOAPpy/wstools/WSDLTools.py", line 28, in loadFromStream
    document = DOM.loadDocument(stream)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/SOAPpy/wstools/Utility.py", line 602, in loadDocument
    return xml.dom.minidom.parse(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 928, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
    parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: syntax error: line 1, column 54