How to use OpenID in RESTful API?

Question

I\'m building Pylons-based web application with RESTful API, which currently lacks any authentication. So I\'m going to implement that and in order to avoid all the trouble and

Answer 1

OAuth is a better fit for API usage. Here's an example of OAuth in use in Python: oauth-python-twitter. Leah Culver's python-oauth library is the canonical implementation of OAuth in Python, but python-oauth2 is a recent contender that is getting some buzz. As for inspiration, django-piston has support for using OAuth to do auth when creating RESTful APIs for Django, though the documentation isn't as nice as I'd like for that particular topic.