Group1 code dojo secret sauce

twit.py

import urllib2
import json
import urllib

API_URL = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json"

def find_a_tweet_without_twitter_stuff(tweets):
    for tweet in tweets:
        if not ("#" in tweet or "@" in tweet or "http://" in tweet):
            yield tweet

def find_an_answer(q):
    req = urllib.urlencode([("q", q), ("result_type", "recent"),
                            ('rpp', '100'), ('lang', 'en')])
    raw = urllib2.urlopen(API_URL, data=req).read()
    results = json.loads(raw)['results']

    tweets = [r['text'] for r in results]
    candidates = list(find_a_tweet_without_twitter_stuff(tweets))
    return candidates

def find_interesting_stuff(words):
    for word in words + ['psychology']:
        tweets = find_an_answer(word)
        if tweets:
            return tweets