How to access a sharepoint site via the REST API in Python?

Question

I have the following site in SharePoint 2013 in my local VM:

http://win-5a8pp4v402g/sharepoint_test/site_1/

When I access this from the browser,

Answer 1

You can also use the sharepoint module from PyPI, self described as "Module and command-line utility to get data out of SharePoint"