title: Alternative to requests.post function?
body: <p>I can't use the python requests package (long story, let's just assume I've exhausted all possibilities for using that package)</p>
  
  <p>Is there an alternative package that would provide the exact functionality of the following code? </p>
  
  <pre><code>import requests
  requests.post(URL, data=DATA, auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD), headers=HEADER)
  </code></pre>