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@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ mytwitter is a simple python twitter application. I wrote it for two reasons:
2. An excuse to learn Python 2. An excuse to learn Python
While I doubt it will be terribly useful for anyone other than me, feel free to take it for a spin and let me know how it goes. You'll need the following python modules: While I doubt it will be terribly useful for anyone other than me, feel free to take it for a spin and let me know how it goes.
INSTALLATION
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You'll need the following python modules:
* pyGTK * pyGTK
* dateutil * dateutil
@ -22,3 +27,15 @@ python setup.py build
python setup.py install --user python setup.py install --user
This will install python-twitter in your ~/.local/lib directory, which python 2.6 will automatically include in PYTHONPATH. This will install python-twitter in your ~/.local/lib directory, which python 2.6 will automatically include in PYTHONPATH.
CONFIGURATION
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Copy the supplied mytwitter.conf file to ~/.mytwitter.conf, and edit it to suit your preferences. At a minimum, you need to change the [account] section to contain a valid twitter username and password. You can have multiple [account] sections.
USAGE
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Just run ./mytwitter.py, and start playing around. Right now, it is best to run this file in-place; it expects twitterwidgets.py and default.glade to be in the same directory.

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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
self.accounts = {} self.accounts = {}
for item in config.sections(): for item in config.sections():
if (re.match(r'account-', item)): if (re.match(r'account', item)):
username = config.get(item, 'username') username = config.get(item, 'username')
self.accounts[username] = twitter.Api(username=username, password=config.get(item, 'password')) self.accounts[username] = twitter.Api(username=username, password=config.get(item, 'password'))