Create a twitter list containing your followers or your mutuals, with idempotent `set_list` function

twitter-list-management.py

import twitter

api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='consumer_key',
                  consumer_secret='consumer_secret',
                  access_token_key='access_token_key',
                  access_token_secret='access_token_secret')

u = api.VerifyCredentials()

def create_list(name='Untitled', mode='private'):
    return api.CreateList(name, mode)

def in_batches_of(n, items, func):
    batches = [items[i:i+n] for i in range(0, len(items), n)]
    for batch in batches:
        func(batch)

def set_list(list_id=None, new_members=set()):
    old_members = api.GetListMembers(list_id = list_id)
    old_members = set(map(lambda x: x.id, old_members))
    to_add = new_members - old_members
    to_remove = old_members - new_members
    
    if len(to_add) > 0:
        in_batches_of(100, list(to_add), lambda ids: api.CreateListsMember(list_id=list_id, user_id=ids))
    if len(to_remove) > 0:
        in_batches_of(100, list(to_remove), lambda ids: api.DestroyListsMember(list_id=list_id, user_id=ids))

def create_list_of_my_followers(mode="private"):
    following_me_list = create_list("Following Me", mode=mode)
    my_followers = set(api.GetFollowerIDs())
    set_list(list_id=following_me_list.id, new_members=my_followers)

def create_list_of_my_mutuals(mode="private"):
    new_twitter_list = create_list("My Mutuals", mode=mode)
    my_followers = set(api.GetFollowerIDs())
    people_i_follow = set(api.GetFriendIDs())
    set_list(list_id=new_twitter_list.id, new_members=my_followers.intersection(people_i_follow))

# Other fun stuff

def get_intersection_following(handles=[]): # ! Rate Limiting
    following = []
    for u in handles:
        api.GetFriends(screen_name=u)
        following.append(
            set(api.GetFriends(screen_name=u))
        )
    return set.intersection(*following)

def get_intersection_followers(handles=[]): # ! Rate Limiting
    followers = []
    for u in handles:
        api.GetFollowers(screen_name=u)
        followers.append(
            set(api.GetFollowers(screen_name=u))
        )
    return set.intersection(*followers)

Note, this is using https://github.com/bear/python-twitter