Minimal test case for github auth api

gistfile1.pytb

>>> import json, urllib2
>>> data = {"scopes": ["gist"], "note": "pgist client"}
>>> j_req = json.dumps(data)
>>> req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com", data=j_req)
>>> resp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found