text: #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  # Create a draft release on GitHub. By default in the zlyzol/tendermint-0.32.3 repo.
  # Optimized for CircleCI
  
  import argparse
  import httplib
  import json
  import os
  from base64 import b64encode
  
  def request(org, repo, data):
    user_and_pass = b64encode(b"{0}:{1}".format(os.environ['GITHUB_USERNAME'], os.environ['GITHUB_TOKEN'])).decode("ascii")
    headers = {
      'User-Agent': 'tenderbot',
      'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % user_and_pass
    }
  
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.github.com', timeout=5)
    conn.request('POST', '/repos/{0}/{1}/releases'.format(org,repo), data, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    if response.status < 200 or response.status > 299:
      print("{0}: {1}".format(response.status, response.reason))
      conn.close()
      raise IOError(response.reason)
    responsedata = response.read()
    conn.close()
    return json.loads(responsedata)
  
  
  def create_draft(org,repo,branch,version):
    draft = {
      'tag_name': version,
      'target_commitish': '{0}'.format(branch),
      'name': '{0} (WARNING: ALPHA SOFTWARE)'.format(version),
      'body': '<a href=https://github.com/{0}/{1}/blob/{2}/CHANGELOG.md#{3}>https://github.com/{0}/{1}/blob/{2}/CHANGELOG.md#{3}</a>'.format(org,repo,branch,version.replace('.','')),
      'draft': True,
      'prerelease': False
    }
    data=json.dumps(draft)
    return request(org, repo, data)
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("--org", default="tendermint", help="GitHub organization")
    parser.add_argument("--repo", default="tendermint", help="GitHub repository")
    parser.add_argument("--branch", default=os.environ.get('CIRCLE_BRANCH'), help="Branch to build from, e.g.: v1.0")
    parser.add_argument("--version", default=os.environ.get('CIRCLE_TAG'), help="Version number for binary, e.g.: v1.0.0")
    args = parser.parse_args()
  
    if not os.environ.has_key('GITHUB_USERNAME'):
      raise parser.error('environment variable GITHUB_USERNAME is required')
  
    if not os.environ.has_key('GITHUB_TOKEN'):
      raise parser.error('environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN is required')
  
    release = create_draft(args.org,args.repo,args.branch,args.version)
  
    print(release["id"])
  
  