POSTing to github's gist api

gists.py

import json
import urllib
import urllib2

url = "https://api.github.com/gists"
data = {'description': 'gistin from a script',
        'public': True,
        'files': { 
            'foobarbaz.txt' : {'content': 'foo bar baz' }
        }}

json_data = json.dumps(data)

req = urllib2.Request(url, json_data, {'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
res = urllib2.urlopen(req)

print res.read()