Make arcgis.com token

maketoken.py

def gentoken(username, password, referer, expiration=60):
    #Re-usable function to get a token required for Admin changes
    referer = "http://www.arcgis.com/"
    
    query_dict = {'username': username,
                  'password': password,
                  'expiration': str(expiration),
                  'client': 'referer',
                  'referer': referer,
                  'f': 'json'}    
    
    query_string = urllib.urlencode(query_dict)
    tokenUrl = "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/generateToken"
    
    tokenResponse = urllib.urlopen(tokenUrl, urllib.urlencode(query_dict))   
    token = json.loads(tokenResponse.read())
        
    if "token" not in token:
        print token['messages']
        import sys
        sys.exit()
    else:
        # Return the token to the function which called for it
        return token['token']