Threaded adding/removing friends, and made it a little more robust. Still buggy, but it always was.

mytwitter.py

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ class MyTwitter():
             config.write(config_filehandle)
             config_filehandle.close()
 
+        if config.has_option('global', 'debug') and config.get('global', 'debug') == '1':
+            debug = True
+            
+
         if len(config.sections()) < 2:
             print "Error: You must define at least one [account] section in " + config_file
             sys.exit(1)
@@ -175,7 +179,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
 
     def update_window_callback(self, widget):
-        pane = self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(self.tweet_notebook.get_current_page())
+        pane = self.get_current_pane()
         self.update_single_window(pane)
 
 
@@ -267,6 +271,10 @@ class MyTwitter():
         self.remove_view(name, single_tweet, conversation)
 
 
+    def get_current_pane(self):
+        return self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(self.tweet_notebook.get_current_page())
+
+
     def add_to_notebook(self, name, single_tweet=None, conversation=False):
         # If it already exists, don't add it, just switch to it
         for i in range(self.tweet_notebook.get_n_pages()):
@@ -372,26 +380,29 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
 
     def on_following_button_clicked(self, event):
-        current_pane = self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(self.tweet_notebook.get_current_page())
+        current_pane = self.get_current_pane()
         user_name = re.sub('^user: ', '', current_pane.get_list_name())
         if current_pane.get_following():
-            with self.api.lock:
-                try:
-                    self.api.DestroyFriendship(user_name)
-                except HTTPError,URLError:
-                    self.update_status_bar('Failed to unfollow user.')
-                    return
-            current_pane.set_following(False)
+            follow = False # destroy the friendship
         else:
-            with self.api.lock:
-                try:
-                    self.api.CreateFriendship(user_name)
-                except HTTPError,URLError:
-                    self.update_status_bar('Failed to follow user.')
-                    return
-            current_pane.set_following(True)
+            follow = True
 
-        self.update_follow_button(current_pane)
+        thread = apithreads.ChangeFriendship(self.api, current_pane, user_name, follow)
+        thread.sig_proxy.connect('friendship-changed', self.on_friendship_changed)
+        thread.start()
+
+
+    def on_friendship_changed(self, widget, data):
+        if data['success']:
+            if data['follow']:
+                self.update_status_bar('Now following ' + data['user_name'])
+            else:
+                self.update_status_bar('No longer following ' + data['user_name'])
+        else: # didn't succeed
+            if data['follow']:
+                self.update_status_bar('Failed to follow ' + data['user_name'])
+            else:
+                self.update_status_bar('Failed to unfollow ' + data['user_name'])
 
 
     # pane should be the currently active pane
@@ -423,7 +434,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
 
     def on_at_button_clicked(self, widget):
-        current_pane = self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(self.tweet_notebook.get_current_page())
+        current_pane = self.get_current_pane()
         user_name = re.sub('^user: ', '', current_pane.get_list_name())
         self.add_to_notebook('@' + user_name)
 
@@ -459,13 +470,13 @@ class MyTwitter():
                 scrolltype = gtk.SCROLL_END
 
             if scrolltype:
-                self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(self.tweet_notebook.get_current_page()).emit('scroll-child', scrolltype, False)
+                self.get_current_pane().emit('scroll-child', scrolltype, False)
                 return True
                   
 
 
     def close_current_tab(self):
-        current_pane = self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(self.tweet_notebook.get_current_page())
+        current_pane = self.get_current_pane()
         self.remove_view(current_pane.get_list_name(), current_pane.get_single_tweet(), current_pane.get_conversation())
 
 
@@ -527,6 +538,8 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
 
 # main
+debug = False # global debug variable
+
 parser = optparse.OptionParser()
 parser.add_option('-c' ,'--config', dest="filename", default="~/.mytwitter.conf", help="read configuration from FILENAME instead of the default ~/.mytwitter.conf")
 parser.add_option('-n' ,'--no-resize', dest="resize", action='store_false', default=True, help="use the default window size instead of the size from the last session")