Cannot request data across multiple values in one category.

[Edward-Boulderstone-BP]

Would like to poll data for multiple years or sectors, to reduce number of api calls made, how ever with the api currently, I cannot
Here is a code snippet of the change I implemented in my own code to fix

def nass_data(api_key, source_desc=None, sector_desc=None, group_desc=None, commodity_desc=None, short_desc=None, domain_desc=None, agg_level_desc=None, domaincat_desc=None, statisticcat_desc=None, state_name=None, asd_desc=None, county_name=None, region_desc=None, zip_5=None, watershed_desc=None, year=None, freq_desc=None, reference_period_desc=None, format=None, numeric_vals=None):
    
    # get dict of paramaters
    inputs = vars()
    inputs.pop('api_key') # get rid of api_key in dict for building url, as it is hardcoded below

    # set up the url with api key
    base_url = "http://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api/" + 'api_GET?key=' + api_key

    # filter dict for non-None values and add actual values to the request
    for item in list(inputs):
        if inputs[item] == None:
            inputs.pop(item)
        else:
            # make sure the desc inputs are all uppercase, and strings
            if type(inputs[item]) == list:
                for indvidual_item in inputs[item]:
                    base_url += '&' + item + '=' + requests.utils.quote(str(indvidual_item).upper())
            else:
                if item != 'numeric_vals':
                    inputs[item] = str((inputs[item])).upper()
                # add on the url parameters
                base_url += '&' + item + '=' + requests.utils.quote(inputs[item]) #encodes unsafe / reserved chars in the user input (such as in ANIMALS & PRODUCTS)
    
    # make the request
    r = requests.get(base_url)
    
    # validate the response
    status = r.status_code

    if status >= 200 and status < 300:
        # success
        return r.json()
    else:
        return 'Response code ' + str(status) + ': ' + r.json()['error'][0]