Update twitter status

post_to_twitter.py

from httplib2 import Http
from urllib import urlencode

class TwitterClient:
  def __init__(self, username, password):
    self.username = username
    self.password = password

  def update_status(self, message):
    client = Http()
    twitter_update_url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"
    client.add_credentials(username, password)
    encoded_data = urlencode(dict(status=message))
    response, content = client.request(twitter_update_url, "POST", encoded_data)
    _fail_if_response_is_not_success(response)

  def _fail_if_response_is_not_success(self, response):
    success_status_code = 200
    if response['status'] != success_status_code:
      raise Exception, "Unable to post message to twitter"

if __name__ == '__main__':
  client = TwitterClient('user','pass')
  client.update_status("I am happy")