A basic twitter api to print user statuses

twitter-api.py

import sys
import operator
import requests
import json
import twitter
from config import *


# Interact with Twitter API
twitter_api = twitter.Api(consumer_key = twitter_consumer_key, consumer_secret = twitter_consumer_secret,
access_token_key = twitter_access_token,
access_token_secret = twitter_access_secret)

# This handles the user
handle = '@user'

# this will retrieve user status: screen name, number of twitters and whether include retweets
statuses = twitter_api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=handle, count=10, include_rts=False)


for status in statuses:
    if (status.lang == 'en'):
        print status.text.encode('utf-8')