https://dominik.suess.wtf/filetags/python/Recent content in python on dominik.suess.wtfHugoen-usSun, 05 Jul 2026 15:46:24 +0200https://dominik.suess.wtf/notes/20260626t115405/Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://dominik.suess.wtf/notes/20260626t115405/<p> While trying out the <a href="https://cartography-cncf.github.io/cartography/">cartography</a> project (in particular their github module), I was confronted with weird errors around bad authorization tokens.</p> <p> On the surface, this code looks correct:</p> <div class="src src-python"> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#fff;background-color:#000;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-python" data-lang="python"><span style="display:flex;"><span>response <span style="color:#00d3d0">=</span> requests<span style="color:#00d3d0">.</span>get( </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> <span style="color:#79a8ff">&#34;https://api.github.com/rate_limit&#34;</span>, </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> headers<span style="color:#00d3d0">=</span>{<span style="color:#79a8ff">&#39;Authorization&#39;</span>: authHeader}, </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>)</span></span></code></pre></div> </div> <p> However, the <a href="https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#custom-headers:~:text=Authorization%20headers%20set%20with%20headers%3D%20will%20be%20overridden%20if%20credentials%20are%20specified%20in%20%2Enetrc%2C%20which%20in%20turn%20will%20be%20overridden%20by%20the%20auth%3D">requests library silently prefers credentials from <code>.netrc</code> if it exists</a> 🤯</p> <p> This file still had expired credentials for <code>api.github.com</code> in my case from ages ago when I tried out <a href="https://github.com/magit/forge">magit forge</a>. Clearing that file solved all issues for me.</p>