pyOAuth is a Python library for dealing with OAuth.
It gives you, the developer, full control over everything that is going on. That means you can:
- Write logic to re-use HTTP connections and perform much better
- Control exactly what parameters get sent and how
- Support out-of-band verifier codes
- Use Python's HTTP facilities to their fullest extent (for example, file uploading)
- Feel confident using a library that has been fully unit-tested
The code behind the library tries to be simple and easy to understand, while refering to the relevant sections in the OAuth specification (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849). So, unlike other libraries, this is one that you can follow along with and learn more about OAuth from.
In the examples directory, there are examples of how to use the library. The canonical one is 3-legged OAuth with the Twitter API.
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