Authenticating to VisualStudioOnline REST API with Personal Access Token using Python 3.6

Question

I am trying to use the VisualStudioOnline REST API using python 3.6. (Plenty of examples using python 2.x.)

The python script response is the generic html login page.

Answer 1

In my experience with doing this via other similar mechanisms, you have to include a leading colon on the PAT, before base64 encoding.