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If you are writing a script that interacts with Jira through a REST API, you should authenticate using an OAuth token, rather than an embedded username/password. Here we describe one way to do the 'oauth dance' to generate a trusted token using Python 3 - specifically the jirashell  utility from the jira Python package.  jirashell  then forms a useful basis for a Python script.

Our example script uses OAuth to call an undocumented REST API for querying license data.