Code sending duplicate requests to API

[tsmith64]

Using python 3.5 on a Win8.1 64bit OS my API requests are mistakenly being sent twice to the server. Talking to the help online, the server officially registers a second request delayed by 2 seconds when sent from my python code. The following code results in a double request:

webhoseio.config(token="API_KEY")
q= code here for building search string
ts=code here for setting timestamp
query_params = {
"q": q,
"ts": ('%d' %ts),
"sort": "published"
}
data = webhoseio.query("filterWebContent",query_params)

I do have an internet accountability filter installed on the computer, but accessing the API through the online API Playground did not result in a double request. What am I missing?