Remove Portal user via ArcGIS REST API with Python without arcgis module

Question

I want to use Python without needing to load the arcgis module (mainly to keep licensing simpler) to remove a Portal user account. It seems like a call to http:// /removeusers as described here should be easy enough to make. But I can't get it to actually work. Can somebody provide an example? Here is the function I have, based on a number of somewhat similar examples I found online. def removeUser (token,portalUrl,username) params = urllib.urlencode({'token' : token,'f' : 'json','users' : username}) response = json.loads(urllib.Request(portalUrl + '/removeusers?', params, { 'Referer' : portalUrl }).read())‍‍‍ The error I get is "AttributeError: read" .

JonathanQuinn · Answer

Request only builds a request that you still have to open using urllib2.urlopen, (I also assume you had a copy/paste issue as Request is a function of urllib2, not urllib). def removeUser (token,portalUrl,username): params = urllib.urlencode({'token' : token,'f' : 'json','users' : username}) req = urllib2.Request(portalUrl + '/removeusers?', params, { 'Referer' : portalUrl }) response = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(req).read()) print(response)‍‍‍‍‍ 20.6. urllib2 — extensible library for opening URLs — Python 2.7.15 documentation