In order to simulate the same functionality as in Java's rest-assured, you can use:

Option 1

requests module along with pytest

Option 2

Use an available module pyhttptest Here you just need to define your test-cases and request in a json file and run all your test cases using command line

And Last

My favorite and recommended one is pyresttest

pyresttest is tool for testing RESTful HTTP requests. It’s written in Python (hence the py prefix) but unless you intend to write extensions this does not require any Python programming. It will work just fine in a Ruby, Go, Node, or PHP project.

As a command line tool it works by specifying a root URL (host) address and then the path to a YAML configuration file. The configuration file enumerates a list of URLs to request and tests against the expected status code.

Cheers!!

I usually use Cucumber to test my restful APIs. The following example is in Ruby, but could easily be translated to python using either the rubypy gem or lettuce.

Start with a set of RESTful base steps:

When /^I send a GET request for "([^\"]*)"$/ do |path|
  get path
end

When /^I send a POST request to "([^\"]*)" with the following:$/ do |path, body|
  post path, body
end

When /^I send a PUT request to "([^\"]*)" with the following:$/ do |path, body|
  put path, body
end

When /^I send a DELETE request to "([^\"]*)"$/ do |path|
  delete path
end

Then /^the response should be "([^\"]*)"$/ do |status|
  last_response.status.should == status.to_i
end

Then /^the response JSON should be:$/ do |body|
  JSON.parse(last_response.body).should == JSON.parse(body)
end

And now we can write features that test the API by actually issuing the requests.

Feature: The users endpoints

  Scenario: Creating a user
    When I send a POST request to "/users" with the following:
      """
      { "name": "Swift", "status": "awesome" }
      """
    Then the response should be "200"

  Scenario: Listing users
    Given I send a POST request to "/users" with the following:
      """
      { "name": "Swift", "status": "awesome" }
      """
    When I send a GET request for "/users"
    Then the response should be "200"
    And the response JSON should be:
      """
      [{ "name": "Swift", "status": "awesome" }]
      """

   ... etc ...

These are easy to run on a CI system of your choice. See these links for references:

• Testing REST APIs With Cucumber and Rack
• The pain of JSON API testing
• Running your Cukes in Jenkins