Open sprint.ly tickets from Python

sprintly.py

import urllib2
import base64
from urllib import urlencode

SPRINTLY_USERNAME = ''
SPRINTLY_API_KEY = ''
SPRINTLY_PROJECT = ''


class Sprintly():
    """
    Open a new sprint.ly ticket

    Arguments
    type (string, required) What kind of item you'd like to create.
        Only story, task, defect, and test are valid values.
    title (string, required for task, defect, and test) The title of item.
    who (string, required for story) The who part of the story.
    what (string, required for story) The what part of the story.
    why (string, required for story) The why part of the story.
    description (string) A description detailing the item. Markdown is allowed.
    score (string) The initial score of the document.
        Only ~, S, M, L, and XL are valid values.
    status (string): Status of the new item. Default is backlog.
        Only backlog, in-progress, completed, and accepted are valid values.
    assigned_to (integer) The user's id which the item should assigned to.
    tags (string) A comma separated list of tags to assign to the item
        (e.g. foo,bar,some other tag,baz).
    """

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.data = kwargs

    def save(self):
        request = urllib2.Request(
            "https://sprint.ly/api/products/%s/items.json" % SPRINTLY_PROJECT,
            urlencode(self.data))
        base64string = base64.encodestring(
            '%s:%s' % (SPRINTLY_USERNAME, SPRINTLY_API_KEY)).replace('\n', '')
        request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
        return response

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ticket = Sprintly(type='story', who='user',
                      what='python sprint.ly integration',
                      why='I can open tickets from my python applications',
                      description='This is pretty cool!',
                      tags='python')
    ticket.save()