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Python Simple Salesforce

I wrote most of simple-salesforce (although not the organization part, as I don't have an IP-whitelisted account to test against)

The standard/vanilla/regular/99% of users should use version is the simple username, password, security_token method.

So something like this

from simple_salesforce import Salesforce

sf = Salesforce(username='nick@nickcatalano.com', password='nickspassword', security_token='tokenemailedtonick')

By far the most confusing part is the security_token part (and was the part I got snagged with.) It turns out the Security Token is emailed to you after a successful password reset. So if you go into your salesforce account and reset your password, I believe you'll end up with an email with the subject salesforce.com security token confirmation which will contain a Security Token in the email. That's your security_token.

To be honest, the security_token kwarg is more convenient than anything. In the normal email/password/token flow that most users rely on what is being sent is email as the login and {password}{security_token} as the password. I believe you could concat that yourself and just pass in an email and password kwarg if you want, but I figured forcing people to concat the password and token themselves would get-go against the simple part of simple-salesforce