How to setup OAuth from jira instance to a python program.

[Bharadwaj Jannu]

Hi,

I want to have OAuth access to the jira as that would give us its accessibility through a program which is required to automate some stuffs like basic JIRA operations. The program is a normal python program executing various jira tasks.

I came across the OAuth approach on Jira's own site (http://jira.readthedocs.io/en/master/examples.html#oauth). I feel it is a good approach rather than specifying username and password in a program, which is not a best practice and not secure at all.

If there is a better approach than this, please share it.

Thanks.