Requests library snippets

json_array_requests.py

import requests
import json

# from https://stackoverflow.com/a/35534695
payload = [{"json": "array"}, {"another": "element"}]
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept':'application/json'}
requests.post(url,data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

# In newer versions of requests
# from https://stackoverflow.com/a/35535240
requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)