a lower-level example of how parameterized builds work in Jenkins

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+import json
+import requests
+
+def foo():
+    """
+    A low level example of how to run a parameterized build in Jenkins
+    from Python.
+    """
+    data={'B':'abc'}
+    toJson = {'parameter':[{'name':'B', 'value':'xyz'}]}
+    url = 'http://localhost:8080/job/ddd/build'
+    #url = 'http://localhost:8000'
+    headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
+    form = {'json':json.dumps(toJson)}
+    response = requests.post(url, data=form, headers=headers)
+    print response.text.encode('UTF-8')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    foo()
+