Hello. I am doing a urequest with basic auth with the latest version of MicroPython in 2020. It is telling me that the keyword 'auth' is unexpected. It is a post request:

res = urequests.post(request_url, headers={'content-type': 'application/json'}, data=post_data, auth=('username','password')).json()
        print(res.text)

Is this not implemented?
Thank you very much for your kind help in advance @fschmi

@fschmi

Hi, a version of this PR has been merged in #500, commit e7e8eff.

@fschmi I hope you don't mind, I maintained your authorship on the commit even though I changed the code slightly based on review comments.

• replace <str>.decode() with str(<str>, "ascii") as not all ports have the decode functione enabled.
• inline the encode_basic_auth function into an inline block - while the function is arguably clearer to read it results in slightly larger bytecode, the inline version saves flash/ram.