BTC-e API Python sample

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import httplib
import urllib
import json
import hashlib
import hmac

# Replace these with your own API key data
BTC_api_key = "your-api-key-here"
BTC_api_secret = "your-api-secret-here"
# Come up with your own method for choosing an incrementing nonce
nonce = 13

# method name and nonce go into the POST parameters
params = {"method":"getInfo",
          "nonce": nonce}
params = urllib.urlencode(params)

# Hash the params string to produce the Sign header value
H = hmac.new(BTC_api_secret, digestmod=hashlib.sha512)
H.update(params)
sign = H.hexdigest()

headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
           "Key":BTC_api_key,
           "Sign":sign}
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("btc-e.com")
conn.request("POST", "/tapi", params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()

print response.status, response.reason
print json.load(response)

conn.close()