Currently shopping.GetMultipleItems expects the item IDs as a single string with comma separated values. This is inelegant, because a Python program normally stores item IDs in a list of strings, or generally in an iterable. Writing before the call to GetMultipleItems:
Is not a big pain, but this line should be IMHO in GetMultipleItems. Therefore:
Please modify shopping.GetMultipleItems, so that its argument item_id accepts an iterable that contains item ID strings.