Let's look at using the PyGitHub package, http://pygithub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, to interact with GitHub repositories. The package is a wrapper around GitHub APIv3, https://developer.github.com/v3/: 

$ sudo pip install pygithub
$ sudo pip3 install pygithub

Let's use the Python shell to print out the user's current repository: 

$ python3
>>> from github import Github
>>> g = Github("ericchou1", "<password>")
>>> for repo in g.get_user().get_repos():
...     print(repo.name)
...
ansible
...
-Hands-on-Network-Programming-with-Python
Mastering-Python-Networking
Mastering-Python-Networking-Second-Edition
>>>

For more programmatic access, we can also create more granular control using an access token. Github allows a token to be associated with the selected rights: 

The output is a bit different if you use the access token as the authentication mechanism: 

>>> from github import Github
>>> g = Github("<token>")
>>> for repo in g.get_user().get_repos():
...     print(repo)
...
Repository(full_name="oreillymedia/distributed_denial_of_service_ddos")
Repository(full_name="PacktPublishing/-Hands-on-Network-Programming-with-Python")
Repository(full_name="PacktPublishing/Mastering-Python-Networking")
Repository(full_name="PacktPublishing/Mastering-Python-Networking-Second-Edition")
...

Now that we are familiar with Git, GitHub, and some of the Python packages, we can use them to work with the technology. We will take a look at some practical examples in the coming section.