How to setup a Python-Jenkins API connection with Python 3

I’m working a project to create Python program that scrapes jobs from a Jenkins server, with the end goal of storing them in a Mongo NoSQL database as an archive. At work we have more than a dozen build servers that will ultimately will be consolidated to a few.
My plan(since we are moving to a cloud service) is to use a Jenkins Docker container hosted from a cloud service to dynamically pull the jobs(from my MongoDB) and run builds on demand!
I decided to use the python-jenkins module, but immediately ran into problems. Nothing serious, just tracking down a few libraries to build the Python modules acquired via pip3. Afterward I tried to connect to a Jenkins server only to be denied with a 401 ‘invalid password’ error. I spent all day trying to figure this one out, but there is little online to help. All the examples I saw were Python2 with HTTPS configurations.
Goals of this Post:
- provide a clear example of connecting to Jenkins HTTP REST API via Python-Jenkins
Extra details:
- Python 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 tested from Fedora 27 Client
- Python 3.5 tested from Fedora 24 Client
- CentOS 6.10 – Jenkins Server ver 2.154