This pull does a bunch of different things, the central piece being replacing httplib calls with calls from requests, which is currently one of the most dominant and useful libraries in the entire ecosystem.

See-
http://pypi-ranking.info/alltime

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018026/what-are-the-differences-between-the-urllib-urllib2-and-requests-module

Second, this version of the python example is directed at producing calls and printing the full result rather than a command line tool for looking at data - the original python scripts came across more as the later. Taking code and incorporating into your app is thus much more natural

To test the example code, simply run >python {script of interest}

This pull requests also eliminates a plethora of redundancies, and is robustly tested. I was not able to make the old scripts work. I do have the httplib calls preserved in the /older versions directory, feel free to move all the old python code there or preserve elsewhere before pulling this new code in, just incase there is something wrong with it that is discovered later.

Let me know what you think and if it can be improved. Thanks!

I will hopefully be using this to plug the data into some of my own projects soon, and perhaps build a flask API for exploring the data in the API (that might be s/w redundant given postman)