How do I push new files to GitHub?

Question

I created a new repository on github.com and then cloned it to my local machine with

git clone https://github.com/usrname/mathematics.git

I

Answer 1

import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen("git rev-parse HEAD".split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = p.communicate()
sha = out.strip()

There's probably a way to do this with PyGithub, but this should work for a quick hack.