If you're looking for a more full stack framework in python, tornado has had support for oauth since it's release. It's implementation does rely on the tornado ioloop though, so it's not something you can easily just pull and use elsewhere.
This is the underlying problem: OAuth implementations that are coupled to other pieces of technology not strictly related to OAuth. So then we keep reimplementing the same protocol over and over again.
I put some time into it a couple years ago before my 2nd kid was born. I've always wanted to go back and work on making it a bit easier to use. One of the things I'd love to do is get rid of it being so tied to request handlers so you can use it more seamlessly in apps.
Yeah it would be great to be able to make API requests using the helper methods from outside of a request handler. As it is, it isn't that difficult to do it otherwise but it's just more code duplication.
