Set port in requests

Question

I\'m attempting to make use of cgminer\'s API using Python. I\'m particularly interested in utilizing the requests library.

I understand how to

Answer 1

Request is an HTTP library.

You can specify the port in the URL http://example.com:4028/....

But, from what I can read in a hurry here cgminer provides a RPC API (or JSON RPC?) not an HTTP interface.