a twitter bot to tweet tweets from a text file

tweeter.py

import tweepy
import time

def login_to_twitter(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret):

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    return tweepy.API(auth) 
    
def tweet(api, tweet):
    
    if len(tweet) > 0:
        print u"tweeting: {}".format(tweet)
        api.update_status(tweet)

def post_tweets():
   
    with open("msg.txt", "r") as f:
        text = f.read()

    api = login_to_twitter(*([line.strip() for line in open("mycreds.txt", "r")]))
    for i in xrange(0, len(text), 140):
        tweet(api, text[i:i+140])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    post_tweets()