Medium.com API in Python

import requests as requests
access_token = "Bearer MEDIUMINTEGRATIONTOKENHERE"
base_url = "https://api.medium.com/v1"
headers = {}
headers['Authorization'] = access_token

def get_current_user():
    req = requests.get(base_url + '/me', headers=headers)
    res = req.json()
    return res

def get_user_publications(user_id):
    req = requests.get(base_url + '/users/' + user_id + '/publications', headers=headers)
    res = req.json()
    return res

def get_publication_contributors(pub_id):
    req = requests.get(base_url + '/publications/' + pub_id + '/contributors', headers=headers)
    res = req.json()
    return res

def create_post(author_id, data):
    # data = {
    # title,           (required) This is only used for SEO listing. You should also include the title in the content field. <100 chars
    # contentFormat,   (required) HTML or Markdown
    # content,         (required) Valid html or markdown of the article
    # canonicalUrl,    Original URL if the content was published elsewhere first
    # tags,            Only three tags will be counted. < 25 chars
    # publishStatus,   Must be “public”, “draft”, or “unlisted”. Public
    # license,         Valid values are “all-rights-reserved”, “cc-40-by”, “cc-40-by-sa”, “cc-40-by-nd”, “cc-40-by-nc”, “cc-40-by-nc-nd”, “cc-40-by-nc-sa”, “cc-40-zero”, “public-domain” Default: “all-rights-reserved”
    # notifyFollowers, Boolean
    # }
    req = requests.post(base_url + '/users/' + author_id + '/posts', headers=headers, data=data)
    res = req.json()
    return res

def create_image(image, content_type):
    # image, in this case, should be a file on-disk
    # content_type must be one of 'image/jpeg', 'image/png', 'image/gif', or 'image/tiff'
    files = {
        'image': (image, open(image, 'rb'), content_type)
        # 'image': ('symbol.png', open('symbol.png', 'rb'), 'image/png')
    }
    req = requests.post(base_url + '/images', files=files, headers=headers)
    res = req.json()
    return res