awesome thanks @jmacdonald

No problem, hope it works. Please note at the top of my program I use

import oauth2 as oauth

and to install that I just used

pip install oauth2

So thats giving me the same issue - I'm wondering if its the url - do you happen to connect to the sandbox at all using this code?

I do connect to the sandbox, are you using the correct account id? Typically it will have _SB1 appended to the end so for example 12345_SB1?

turns out it was the restlet that was at fault - thanks for the help