import urllib
import urllib2
import base64
import httplib
import socket
## authenticate module is used for http basic authentication. found in 'urllib2 missing manual'
def authenticate(username, password):
password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
top_level_url = 'http://twitter.com/'
password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password)
handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
return opener
## updates twitter status given the status, user name (id or email) and password
def update_status(status, user, password):
data = {'status' : status}
data = urllib.urlencode(data)
url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'
opener = authenticate(user, password)
result = ''
try:
handle = opener.open(url, data = data)
result = handle.read()
handle.close()
return
except Exception, detail:
print "Err ", detail
#program starts from here
main()
Hope you will find it useful. Let me know if you have any suggestion to make my code better. It will be appreciated.