Program to do basic authentication using “requests” module in python

$python3 basic_authentication.py 
Response.status_code:401
$cat basic_authentication.py 
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'password'))

# requests provides a shorthand for this authentication method
response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'password'))

print('Response.status_code:'+ str(response.status_code))

if response.status_code == 200:
	print('Login successful :'+response.text)

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