How to check existing persistence profiles with iControl REST python SDK?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Python, but here's a fragment of how I populate an html option field with perl. Notice there are 2 persist types I'm fetching: source-addr, and cookie.

@PersistTypes = ("source-addr", "cookie");

foreach (@PersistTypes) {

$line = "";

$PFILE="";

open($PFILE, '-|', 'curl -k -u' . $F5User . ":" . $F5Pass . ' -v https://' . $LTM . '/mgmt/tm/ltm/persistence/' . $_ . '?\$select=name 2>/dev/null') or die $!;

while ($line = <$PFILE>) {

$line =~ s{^.*[}{}; Remove everything up to and including the 1st "["

$line =~ tr/]{]"}//d;

$line =~ s/name://g;

push (@Persist, split(',',$line));

                    } End while

close($PFILE);

                    }  End foreach (@PersistTypes)

foreach $PersistItem (@Persist) {

    if ($PersistItem eq $PersistProfile) {

    $PersistValues .= "$PersistItem";

                       }

    else {

    $PersistValues .= "$PersistItem";

         }

                      }  End foreach $PersistItem (@Persist)