docs: def connect_to_jira(self, JIRAUsername=None,
                          JIRAPassword=None, options=None):
          """
          Connect to a JIRA server.
  
              Arguments:
                  |  JIRAUsername (string)  	|  (Optional) A JIRA Username you wish to authenticate with, will authorise with anonymous account if left empty      				|
                  |  JIRAPassword (string)  	|  (Optional) If a username was specified and a password is not the user will be prompted for password at runtime 					|
                  |  options (dictionary) 	|  (Optional) A dictionary of options that the JIRA connection will be initialied with 	                                            |
  
              This must be called first to be able to do most JIRA actions such as creating a new issue and assigning users.
              When connecting to JIRA you may need to authenticate a user. This can be done by passing in Username and Password as parameters. However, should you wish to not have a sensitive password saved in a file,  an option is available to not pass in a Password and a prompt will appear asking for the JIRA password at runtime.
  
  
              'connect to jira' can be called on its own and will default options to:
                  '{'rest_api_version': '2', 'verify': True,
                  'server': 'http://localhost:2990/jira', 'headers': {'X-Atlassian-Token': 'nocheck'},
                  'rest_path': 'api', 'resilient': False, 'async': False}'
              These can all be customised as needed.
  
              Examples:
                  |  *Keyword*        |  *Parameters* | 									| 									|
                  |  connect to jira  |  				|           						|                          			|
                  |  connect to jira  |  asimmons	    | options= {'http://devjira01'} 	|    								|
                  |  connect to jira  |  asimmond 	| MyP@ssword 						| {'server': http://devjira01'} 	|
          """
  
          if JIRAUsername is not None and (JIRAPassword is "" or JIRAPassword is None):
              JIRAPassword = getpass.getpass("\nJIRA Password: ")
  		
          print JIRAUsername
  
          JIRAOptions = eval(options)
          if JIRAUsername is None:
              try:
                  self.jira = JIRA(JIRAOptions)
              except:
                  sys.__stdout__.write("\nAuthentication to JIRA unsuccessful. Ensure the user used has sufficient access and that Username and Password were correct\n\n")
                  sys.exit(1)
  
          else:
              try:
                  self.jira = JIRA(options=JIRAOptions, basic_auth=(str(JIRAUsername),
                                   str(JIRAPassword)))
              except:
                  sys.__stdout__.write("\nAuthentication to JIRA unsuccessful. Ensure the user used has sufficient access and that Username and Password were correct\n\n")
                  sys.exit(1)