With Requests:
import requests
requests.put('http://www.somedomain.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/levi/4?op=CREATE')
With httplib
:
import httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.somedomain.com:50070')
connection.request('PUT', '/webhdfs/v1/levi/4?op=CREATE')
response = connection.getresponse()