Authenticating To Visualstudioonline Rest Api With Personal Access Token Using Python 3.6

I am trying to use the VisualStudioOnline REST API using python 3.6. (Plenty of examples using python 2.x.) The python script response is the generic html login page. I have teste

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In my experience with doing this via other similar mechanisms, you have to include a leading colon on the PAT, before base64 encoding.