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using tweepy
>>> import tweepy
>>> auth = tweepy.BasicAuthHandler("matagus", "blablabla")
>>> api = tweepy.API(auth)
>>> user = tweepy.api.get_user('twitter')
>>> user
<tweepy.models.User object at 0xb767b88c>
>>> user.id_str
u'783214'
>>> user = tweepy.api.get_user('matagus')
>>> user.id_str
u'16844686'
>>> user = tweepy.api.get_user('unuserquenoexiste')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/matagus/virtualenvs/tweepy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 179, in _call
return method.execute()
File "/home/matagus/virtualenvs/tweepy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 162, in execute
raise TweepError(error_msg, resp)
tweepy.error.TweepError: Not found
>>>
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matagus commented Jan 19, 2011

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