*Starts pondering what sort of Django-powered apps he could build with this.*

This is great, I was using curl and then stripping out the tags to Twitter from the cli, but this is much cleaner. I was wondering if you could post a quick comment on how to edit the code to remove the need for -u and -p, to just embed my authorization information into the script so I can post without typing the extra data. Thanks for the code, much cleaner than what I had come up with my complete lack of programming skills.

Nice work Stuart! Please do let us Twitter devs know if there’s anything you’d like out of the API.

Hi, Stuart,

I’ve been playing with tweetyPy for the last day or so, and I’m really kind of enamored. I’m working on a bash-script concoction of watch, screen, and tweetyPy to build a command-line shadow of the variety of GUI Twitter tools. It might be easier to pick up Python, since I’ve been meaning to anyway, but, for the moment, this is it. For those folks who ssh into their boxes and want to use screen with a custom .screenrc which maintains a region with the timelines, and a region for tweeting, I’ll be happy to make it available when I’ve finished.

Yesterday, thinks worked swimmingly, basically. Today, however, it seems that there’s some Unicode business mucking up the timeline. I’m not sure if there’s something that could be changed in the Python, e.g. some headers business, or something else. Here’s the error I’m getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/muraii/utilities/tweetyPy", line 234, in ?
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/home/muraii/utilities/tweetyPy", line 228, in main
print result
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position 883: ordinal not in range(256)


Actually, this is a bit different, as it previously was in position 1014. I wager someone used an em-dash in their tweet, and the position change is due to new tweets pushing that offending character around.

Have you had any issues like this?

Thanks for your efforts on this.

Daniel

@Stuart:

Done. Hopefully it wasn’t too anecdotal. I’ve never filed a bug before.

I saw a Twitter bundle up on the TM repository, but when I try to use it, I get an error in TextMate:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/tmp/temp_textmate.n8lZKw”, line 5, in
from twittermate import print_new_tweets
File “/Users/drew/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/Bundles/Twitter.tmbundle/Support/twittermate.py”, line 4, in
import keychain, twitter
ImportError: No module named twitter

When I go in to look at line four, it appears to be trying to import “twitter”, and there is not an accompanying file. Did you make this bundle? Is it supposed to be functioning?

thanks!!