Twitter block a list of user with TwitterAPI

twitter-block.py

import codecs
from datetime import datetime
import sys
from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI, TwitterOAuth, TwitterRestPager

###Supposed you have a large list of username like this in a txt file (here: o.txt) :
###@aaaa
###@bbbb
###@cccc
###....
###


try:
    # python 3
    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout.buffer)
except:
    # python 2
    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)

api = TwitterAPI(consumer_key='',consumer_secret='', access_token_key='',access_token_secret='')

lines = [line.strip() for line in open('o.txt')]

for user in lines:
  r = api.request('blocks/create', {'screen_name': user[1:], 'skip_status': '1'})
  print(str(r.status_code) + ' ' + user)