connect with twitter's api in python via tweepy

tweepy.py

import tweepy

# api keys accessed from http://dev.twitter.com/apps
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

# now you can do stuff like this:

# get my last 20 tweets
my_tweets = api.user_timeline("brianabelson")

# these are formatted as a list of dictioaries
print my_tweets[0]

# tweet from python! (only works if your account is set to "read/write")
api.update_status("I'm tweetin from python, yo!")