Digest authentication in Python?

urllib2 is the python standard library, but not necessarily the best tool for HTTP Requests.

I would highly recommend checking out the requests package, and you can find an authentication tutorial here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/authentication/#digest-authentication

Another very popular form of HTTP Authentication is Digest Authentication, and Requests supports this out of the box as well:

from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
url = 'http://httpbin.org/digest-auth/auth/user/pass'
requests.get(url, auth=HTTPDigestAuth('user', 'pass'))