A gist to test the Gist API

gist_api.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2
import base64
import json

filename = __file__.split("/")[-1]

data = {}
data["description"] = "A gist to test the Gist API"
data["public"] = True
data["files"] = {filename:{}}
data["files"][filename]["content"] = open(__file__).read().replace("******", "******")

url = "https://api.github.com/gists"

auth_string = "grodtron:******"
auth_string = base64.encodestring(auth_string)[:-1]

req = urllib2.Request(url, json.dumps(data))
req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % auth_string)

try:
   result = urllib2.urlopen(req)
   print result.read()
except urllib2.URLError, e:
   print e