import urllib2
import json
import base64

# Token anfordern:
base64string = base64.encodestring('hans:geheim').replace('\n', '')
request = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/authorizations")
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)

result = urllib2.urlopen(request, '{"note": "Access to your repository.", "scopes": ["repo"]}')
result = json.loads('\n'.join(result.readlines()))
token = result['token']

# Issue einfuegen:
issue = '{"title": "Fehler", "body": "Ich habe da einen Fehler gefunden." }'

request = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/repos/timschuermann/test/issues")
request.add_header("Authorization", "token %s" % token)
request.get_method = lambda: 'POST'
antwort = urllib2.urlopen(request, issue)

#Rueckmeldung ausgeben:
print antwort.getcode()
print antwort.headers.getheader('content-type')
print antwort.read()