Shortcuts for generating request headers.

    :param keep_alive:
        If ``True``, adds 'connection: keep-alive' header.

    :param accept_encoding:
        Can be a boolean, list, or string.
        ``True`` translates to 'gzip,deflate'.
        List will get joined by comma.
        String will be used as provided.

    :param user_agent:
        String representing the user-agent you want, such as
        "python-urllib3/0.6"

    :param basic_auth:
        Colon-separated username:password string for 'authorization: basic ...'
        auth header.

    Example: ::

        >>> make_headers(keep_alive=True, user_agent="Batman/1.0")
        {'connection': 'keep-alive', 'user-agent': 'Batman/1.0'}
        >>> make_headers(accept_encoding=True)
        {'accept-encoding': 'gzip,deflate'}

def make_headers(keep_alive=None, accept_encoding=None, user_agent=None,
                 basic_auth=None):
    """
    Shortcuts for generating request headers.

    :param keep_alive:
        If ``True``, adds 'connection: keep-alive' header.

    :param accept_encoding:
        Can be a boolean, list, or string.
        ``True`` translates to 'gzip,deflate'.
        List will get joined by comma.
        String will be used as provided.

    :param user_agent:
        String representing the user-agent you want, such as
        "python-urllib3/0.6"

    :param basic_auth:
        Colon-separated username:password string for 'authorization: basic ...'
        auth header.

    Example: ::

        >>> make_headers(keep_alive=True, user_agent="Batman/1.0")
        {'connection': 'keep-alive', 'user-agent': 'Batman/1.0'}
        >>> make_headers(accept_encoding=True)
        {'accept-encoding': 'gzip,deflate'}
    """
    headers = {}
    if accept_encoding:
        if isinstance(accept_encoding, str):
            pass
        elif isinstance(accept_encoding, list):
            accept_encoding = ','.join(accept_encoding)
        else:
            accept_encoding = 'gzip,deflate'
        headers['accept-encoding'] = accept_encoding

    if user_agent:
        headers['user-agent'] = user_agent

    if keep_alive:
        headers['connection'] = 'keep-alive'

    if basic_auth:
        headers['authorization'] = 'Basic ' + \
            basic_auth.encode('base64').strip()

    return headers