post_JSON_to_API.py

# POST JSON Payload

import json
import requests

url = "http://httpbin.org/post"
payload = {"colors":[
            {"color":"red","hex":"#f00"},
            {"color":"green","hex":"#0f0"},
            {"color":"blue","hex":"#00f"},
            {"color":"cyan","hex":"#0ff"},
            {"color":"magenta","hex":"#f0f"},
            {"color":"yellow","hex":"#ff0"},
            {"color":"black","hex":"#000"}
        ]}
headers = {"content-type": "application/json"}

# post data to a web server
response = requests.post(url, data = json.dumps(payload), headers = headers)

# output response to screen
print response.status_code