artifactory_url = 'artifactory.com'       # your artifactory instance
artifactory_username = 'username'         # your username
artifcatory_password = 'password'         # your password
content_type = 'application/java-archive' # your content-type header
filename = 'file'                         # your file to upload (in current working directory)

url = artifactory_url + '/' + filename  # where we want the file stored on artifactory

# checksums are useful for making sure the upload was successful
headers = {'content-type': content_type,
           'X-Checksum-Md5': hashlib.md5(open(filename).read()).hexdigest(),
           'X-Checksum-Sha1': hashlib.sha1(open(filename).read()).hexdigest()}

with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
r = requests.put(url,
                          auth=(artifactory_username,
                                    artifactory_password),
                          data=f,
                          headers=headers)

# check for success
if r.status_code != 201:
    print "Something went wrong"
else:
    print r.json()['downloadUri']  # download url for this new artifact