Python script to delete all tweets using Python version 3

delete-all-tweets.py

import tweepy
import traceback
import _thread

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_key = ''
access_secret = ''


def deleteThread(api, objectId):
    try:
        api.destroy_status(objectId)
        print("Deleted:", objectId)
    except:
        print("Failed to delete:", objectId)


def oauth_login(consumer_key, consumer_secret):
    """Authenticate with twitter using OAuth"""

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url()

    verify_code = input("Authenticate at %s and then enter you verification code here > " % auth_url)
    auth.get_access_token(verify_code)

    return tweepy.API(auth)


def batch_delete(api):
    print("You are about to Delete all tweets from the account @%s." % api.verify_credentials().screen_name)
    print("Does this sound ok? There is no undo! Type yes to carry out this action.")
    do_delete = input("> ")
    if do_delete.lower() == 'yes':
    for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items():
        try:
            #api.destroy_status(status.id)
            #print("Deleted:", status.id)
            _thread.start_new_thread(deleteThread, (api, status.id,))
        except Exception:
            traceback.print_exc()
            print("Failed to delete:", status.id)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    print("Authenticated as: %s" % api.verify_credentials().screen_name)

    batch_delete(api)