Filter Devices by Category

def filter_dev_category():
    if auth == None or url == None:  # checks to see if the imc credentials are already available
        imc_creds()
    global r
    category = None
    ip_range = None
    get_dev_list_url = None
    filter_by_cat = input("Do you want to filter by device category?\nY/N: ")
    if filter_by_cat.lower() == "y":
        print_dev_category()
        category = input("Please select the device category: ")
        get_dev_list_url = ("/imcrs/plat/res/device?resPrivilegeFilter=false&category="+category+"&start=0&size=10000&orderBy=id&desc=false&total=false")
        #return get_dev_list_url
    filter_by_ip = input("Do you want to filter by IP address network range?\nY/N: ")
    if filter_by_ip.lower() == "y":
        ip_range = input("What is the ip network range?\n Example: 10.101.16.\nFuzzy search is acceptible: ")
        if category == None:
            get_dev_list_url = ("/imcrs/plat/res/device?resPrivilegeFilter=false&ip="+ip_range+"&start=0&size=5&orderBy=id&desc=false&total=false")
        else:
            get_dev_list_url = ("/imcrs/plat/res/device?resPrivilegeFilter=false&category="+category+"&ip="+ip_range+"&start=0&size=10000&orderBy=id&desc=false&total=false")
    f_url = url + get_dev_list_url
    
    payload = None
    r = requests.get(f_url, auth=auth, headers=headers)   #creates the URL using the payload variable as the contents
    r.status_code
    if r.status_code == 200:
         dev_list = (json.loads(r.text))["device"]
         return dev_list
    else:
         print ("An Error has occured")