1. requests
import requests, json
github_url = 'https://api.github.com/user/repos'
data = json.dumps({'name':'test', 'description':'some test repo'})
r = requests.post(github_url, data, auth=('user', '*****'))
print r.json
2.urllib(python3)
from urllib import request, parse
url = 'https://api.github.com/user/repos'
data = parse.urlencode(body).encode('utf-8')
req = request.Request(url,data = data,headers = {} )
page = request.urlopen(req)