Implemented Retweet api, and removed the update_window from update_status because twitter's post delay is too long for that to be feasible

README

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ While I doubt it will be terribly useful for anyone other than me, feel free to
 
 * pyGTK
 * dateutil
-* twitter (the dev version, not 0.6), along with my patch (included here)
+* twitter (the dev version, not 0.6), along with my patches (included here)
 
 
 For the twitter module, you can download and install it with:
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ For the twitter module, you can download and install it with:
 hg clone https://python-twitter.googlecode.com/hg/ python-twitter
 cd python-twitter
 hg update dev
-hg patch -u "Patrick Wiggins <jpwigan@gmail.com>" ../mytwitter/python-twitter-GetListStatuses.patch
+patch -p1 < ../mytwitter/python-twitter-GetListStatuses.patch
+patch -p1 < ../mytwitter/python-twitter-Retweet.patch
 python build.py build
 python build.py install --user
 

mytwitter.py

@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ class MyTwitter():
         self.update_entry.set_text("")
         self.api.PostUpdate(text, in_reply_to_status_id=self.reply_id)
         self.reply_id = None
-        self.update_window()
         
 
     def update_status_callback(self, widget):
@@ -128,9 +127,8 @@ class MyTwitter():
         self.update_entry.grab_focus()
 
 
-    # fixme: need to implement the retweet API in python-twitter to continue
     def on_retweet(self, widget):
-        pass
+        self.api.Retweet(widget.id)
 
 ### end class MyTwitter
 

python-twitter-Retweet.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+diff -r 51ac454d5d89 twitter.py
+--- a/twitter.py	Thu Dec 31 15:06:42 2009 -0500
++++ b/twitter.py	Fri Apr 09 18:08:08 2010 -0400
+@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@
+       >>> list = api.GetList('list_slug')
+       >>> list.member_count
+       >>> lists = api.GetUserLists()
++
++    Retweet API:
++
++      >>> api.Retweet(id)
+   '''
+ 
+   DEFAULT_CACHE_TIMEOUT = 60 # cache for 1 minute
+@@ -690,6 +694,29 @@
+     results.append(self.PostUpdate(lines[-1], **kwargs))
+     return results
+ 
++  def Retweet(self, id):
++    '''Retweet the specified status update
++
++    The twitter.Api instance must be authenticated.
++
++    Args:
++      id: The numerical ID of the status update you want to retweet
++
++    Returns:
++      A Status instance representing the retweet
++    '''
++    try:
++      if id:
++        long(id)
++    except:
++      raise TwitterError("id must be a long integer")
++    parameters={'id': id}
++    url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweet/%s.json' % id
++    json = self._FetchUrl(url, parameters=parameters)
++    data = simplejson.loads(json)
++    self._CheckForTwitterError(data)
++    return NewStatusFromJsonDict(data)
++
+   def GetReplies(self, since=None, since_id=None, page=None):
+     '''Get a sequence of status messages representing the 20 most recent
+     replies (status updates prefixed with @username) to the authenticating