import requests
import json

# point to credentials
import os
import yaml
myKeys = yaml.load(open(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), 'Documentskeyfile2.json')))

user = myKeys['PoliteMail'][1]['user']
password = myKeys['PoliteMail'][1]['password']
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(user, password)

base_url = 'https://comm.microsoft.com/ssv3/odata/'
entity = 'Contacts'
url = base_url+entity

r = requests.get(url+'(56)', auth=auth)
print(r.status_code) # '200'

payload = {
"ID":"0",
"Name":"Test List",
"Description":"Does this work",
"IsNewsletter":"0",
"Shared":False,
"CreationDate":"2014-11-19T23:00:00.000Z",
"ActiveState":"1",
"isAnonymous":False,
"BusinessID":"0",
"RegionID":"0"
}

r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload),auth=auth)

r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload),auth=auth,
                     headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"})