new_contents: #Python 2.7.6
  #RestfulClient.py
  
  import requests
  from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
  import json
  
  # Replace with the correct URL
  url = "http://api_url"
  
  # It is a good practice not to hardcode the credentials. So ask the user to enter credentials at runtime
  myResponse = requests.get(url,auth=HTTPDigestAuth(raw_input("username: "), raw_input("Password: ")), verify=True)
  #print (myResponse.status_code)
  
  # For successful API call, response code will be 200 (OK)
  if(myResponse.ok):
  
      # Loading the response data into a dict variable
      # json.loads takes in only binary or string variables so using content to fetch binary content
      # Loads (Load String) takes a Json file and converts into python data structure (dict or list, depending on JSON)
      jData = json.loads(myResponse.content)
  
      print("The response contains {0} properties".format(len(jData)))
      print("\n")
      for key in jData:
          print key + " : " + jData[key]
  else:
    # If response code is not ok (200), print the resulting http error code with description
      myResponse.raise_for_status()
  
subject: Create API_CALL_SCRIPT.py