Validate in app purchases from App Store

in_app_purchase_apple.py

import urllib, urllib2 
import simplejson as json 
import datetime url = 'https://sandbox.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt' receipt_data = 'receipt_data' password =  'your_password'
data = { "receipt-data": receipt_data, "password": password }
headers = {'Content-Type': 'text/Json; charset=utf-8'}
dataj = json.dumps(data)

request = urllib2.Request(url, dataj, headers)

# In case you are wondering what is being sent and the format 
print "request%s" % request.get_data() 

# This shows the method either POST or GET (App store wants POST and not GET) 
print "request type %s" % request.get_method() 
start_time = datetime.datetime.now() 
response = urllib2.urlopen(request) 
wait_time = datetime.datetime.now() - start_time 
print('Wait time for validation call: %s' % wait_time) 
response_json = json.loads(response.read()) 
print response_json