how to authenticate in jira with python - python-3.x

Question

from jira.client import JIRA
jira_options={'server': 'https://abcjira.atlassian.net/login?dest- url=%2Fsecure%2FMyJiraHome.jspa'}
jira=JIRA(options=jira_options,basic_auth=('user','password'))
I want to do basic authentication in jira with python. Wrote above code but it gives me traceback. Could anyone please tell me what is the problem here.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "lab.py", line 5, in <module>
jira=JIRA(options=jira_options,basic_auth=('user','password'))
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 261, in __init__
si = self.server_info()
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 1619, in server_info
return self._get_json('serverInfo')
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 2040, in _get_json
raise e
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 2037, in _get_json
r_json = json_loads(r)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\jira\utils.py", line 81, in json_loads
return json.loads(r.text)
File "C:\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting value", s, err.value)) from None
ValueError: Expecting value: line 4 column 1 (char 3)