Yahoo BOSS V2 authorization troubles

Question

I'm having an awfully hard time with Yahoo's authentication/authorization. I've enabled BOSS in my account, set up a payment method, and now I'm trying to run a search using some python code:

import urllib2
import oauth2 as oauth
import time

OAUTH_CONSUMER_KEY = "blahblahblah"
OAUTH_CONSUMER_SECRET = "blah"

def oauth_request(url, params, method="GET"):
    params['oauth_version'] = "1.0",
    params['oauth_nonce'] = oauth.generate_nonce(),
    params['oauth_timestamp'] = int(time.time())

    consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=OAUTH_CONSUMER_KEY,
                              secret=OAUTH_CONSUMER_SECRET)
    params['oauth_consumer_key'] = consumer.key
    req = oauth.Request(method=method, url=url, parameters=params)
    req.sign_request(oauth.SignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1(), consumer, None)

    return req


if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = "http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web"

    req = oauth_request(url, params={"q": "cats dogs"})
    req_url = req.to_url()
    print req_url
    result = urllib2.urlopen(req_url)

I keep getting a urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized exception. I can't figure out whether there's something wrong with my key, or the method of signing, or if I'm somehow tampering with my data after signing, or what the deal is. Anyone have suggestions?

Yahoo BOSS V2 authorization troubles

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