restClient.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import os
import urllib

API_KEY = '123456789'
REST_HOST = 'https://xxxx.com';

def main():
   
    url = REST_HOST + '/aMethod/'
    method = 'doSomething'
    params = urllib.urlencode({
        'method': method,
        'arg0': API_KEY,
        'arg1': '192.168.1.155',
        'arg2': 'tester01.example.com',
        'arg3': 'abc'
    })

    api_call = urllib.urlopen(url, params).read()
   
    print api_call ## display the raw response

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()