What server to use to connect python with jira api

I have ran across this when I have special characters in my password and it doesn't get parsed well in the script.

Try

from jira import JIRA
import getpass

password = getpass.getpass()

options = {'server': 'url'}
jira = JIRA(options, basic_auth=('username', password))

If somebody still need a solution, you can install JIRA rest api lib https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jira/. Just a simple example :

from jira.client import JIRA

jira_server = "http://yourjiraserver.com"
jira_user = "login"
jira_password = "pass"

jira_server = {'server': jira_server}
jira = JIRA(options=jira_server, basic_auth=(jira_user, jira_password))

group = jira.group_members("jira-users")
for users in group:
    print users

import urllib2, base64
import requests
import ssl
import json
import os
from pprint import pprint
import getpass

UserName = raw_input("Ener UserName: ")
pswd = getpass.getpass('Password:')

# Total number of users or licenses used in JIRA. REST api of jira can take values of 50 incremental
ListStartAt = [0,50,100,150,200,250,300]
counter = 0
for i in ListStartAt:
    request = urllib2.Request("https://jiraserver.com/rest/api/2/group/member?groupname=GROUPNAME&startAt=%s" %i)

    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (UserName, pswd)).replace('\n', '')
    request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string) 
    gcontext = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
    result = urllib2.urlopen(request, context=gcontext)

    JsonGroupdata = result.read()
    jsonToPython = json.loads(JsonGroupdata)

    try:
        for i in range (0,50):
            print jsonToPython["values"][i]["key"]
            counter = counter+1
    except Exception as e:
        pass
print counter