In the documentation for SimpleXMLRPCServer
(http://docs.python.org/lib/simple-xmlrpc-servers.html)it is said, that
the SimpleXMLRPCServer object has an attribute "rpc_paths" that could be
set to  valid path portions.
This would mean that changing the example code on the same page by
adding a line like:
[...] 
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
server.rpc_paths = ('/test')
[...]
would result in a call to 'http://localhost:8000/test' be processed
correctly. But this is not the case.
The server object has no attribute 'rpc_paths' nor does creating an
attribute like this change anything.

What however works is a line like this:
[...]
server.RequestHandlerClass.rpc_paths = ('/test')
[...]

The reason for this is that the test 'is_rpc_path_valid' is a method of
the class SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler which tests if the path is in  the
class attribute 'rpc_paths' of SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler. This class is
saved as RequestHandlerClass in SimpleXMLRPCServer. 

So the behavior of the code is understandable but is not described by
the documentation.

Thanks for pointing out this error.  Corrected in rev. 60987.