Update twitter status using Python script
Recently I have written a Python script to update status message in twitter using their api . Let me share the code here: 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, da