Bing Azure API Authentication with Python 3 Requests Module

#!/usr/local/bin/python3.3
# Gist available at: https://gist.github.com/alexmill/cd6ec9ebf1e5ee5fd314
# From article hosted at: http://alex.miller.im/posts/bing-azure-api-authentication-python-requests/

from urllib.parse import quote_plus
import json
import requests

def bing_search(query):
    # Your base API URL
    url = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/v1/Web"
    
    # Query parameters. Don't try using urlencode here.
    # Don't ask why, but Bing needs the "$" in front of its parameters.
    # The '$top' parameter limits the number of search results.
    url += "?$format=json&$top=10&Query=%27{}%27".format(quote_plus(query))
    
    # You can get your primary account key at https://datamarket.azure.com/account
    r = requests.get(url, auth=("","YOUR_AZURE_API_PRIMARY_ACCOUNT_KEY"))
    resp = json.loads(r.text)
    return(resp)

This is great. Thanks!