After some heinous, dirty hacking, we can search for hashtags and @replies on arbitrary users

mytwitter.py

@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
     def update_windows(self):
         for i in range(0, self.tweet_notebook.get_n_pages()):
+            using_results = False
+
             pane = self.tweet_notebook.get_nth_page(i)
             list_name = pane.get_list_name()
 
@@ -89,12 +91,13 @@ class MyTwitter():
                 statuses = self.api.GetMentions(count=self.num_entries)
             elif re.match(r'user: ', list_name):
                 statuses = self.api.GetUserTimeline(re.sub(r'^user: ', r'', list_name), count=self.num_entries)
-            elif re.match(r'#', list_name):
+            elif re.match(r'[#|@]', list_name):
                 statuses = self.api.Search(list_name, rpp=self.num_entries)
+                using_results = True
             else:
                 statuses = self.api.GetListStatuses(list_name, per_page=self.num_entries)
 
-            pane.update_window(statuses)
+            pane.update_window(statuses, using_results=using_results)
 
             # Update the label with the number of unread tweets
             pane_text = list_name
@@ -198,7 +201,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
     def on_search(self, event):
         search_string = self.search_entry.get_text()
         self.search_entry.set_text('')
-        if re.match(r'#', search_string):
+        if re.match(r'[#|@]', search_string):
             self.add_to_notebook(search_string)
         else:
             # Assume this is a user name we want to lookup
@@ -261,7 +264,12 @@ class TweetPane(gtk.ScrolledWindow):
         self.show_all()
 
 
-    def update_window(self, statuses):
+    def update_window(self, raw_statuses, using_results=False):
+        if using_results:
+            statuses = self.statuses_from_results(raw_statuses)
+        else:
+            statuses = raw_statuses
+
         # If this is our first load of this list, don't treat anything as new!
         if self.last_tweet_read is None:
             self.last_tweet_read = statuses[0].id
@@ -298,6 +306,31 @@ class TweetPane(gtk.ScrolledWindow):
     def get_num_new_tweets(self):
         return self.num_new_tweets
 
+
+    # To keep things simple elsewhere and improve code reuse
+    # we'll build a list of home-cooked Status objects out of results.
+    # Why is this even necessary?
+    # Why can't we have more consistency out of the Twitter API?
+    def statuses_from_results(self, results):
+        statuses = []
+        for result in results.results:
+            status = Status()
+            status.id = result.id
+            status.user = User()
+            status.user.screen_name = result.from_user
+            status.user.name = ""
+            # The Twitter Search API has different timestamps than the
+            # REST API... balls
+            # fixme:
+            # Gotta be a cleaner way to do this, but I can't think of it
+            # right now
+            created_at = re.sub(',', '', result.created_at)
+            created_split = re.split(' ', created_at)
+            status.created_at = created_split[0] + ' ' + created_split[2] + ' ' + created_split[1] + ' ' + created_split[4] + ' ' + created_split[5] + ' ' + created_split[3]
+            status.text = result.text
+            statuses.append(status)
+        return statuses
+
 ### end class TweetPane
 
 
@@ -476,6 +509,19 @@ class CloseTabLabel(gtk.EventBox):
 ### end class CloseTabLabel
 
 
+# A couple of lame faux-classes because the Twitter API needs a kick
+# in the face
+class Status():
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.user = User()
+        self.id = None
+        self.created_at = None
+
+class User():
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.screen_name = None
+        self.name = None
+
 
 # main