Send random normal number at even intervals to PI Web API

digiToPIWebAPI.py

import urllib2, urllib, random, time, hmac, hashlib, base64
from datetime import datetime

def piweb():
    print 'starting'
    
    value_endpoint = '<your PI Web API value endpoint>'
    
    password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
    password_manager.add_password(None, value_endpoint, '<your username>', '<your password>')
    
    # decorator pattern
    auth = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager) # create an authentication handler
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth) # create an opener with the authentication handler
    urllib2.install_opener(opener) # install the opener... 

    headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept': '*/*'}
    
    for i in range(0,10): 
        ts = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f') + 'Z'
        print ts

        body = str({"Timestamp": ts, "Value": random.normalvariate(0,1)})

        request = urllib2.Request(value_endpoint, headers = headers) 
        request.add_data(body)

        response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
        
        time.sleep(1)
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    piweb()