from base64 import b64encode
from urllib import urlencode
-import httplib
+import urllib2
from exceptions import Exception
encoded_kwargs = urlencode(kwargs.items())
argStr = ""
- if kwargs and (method == "GET"):
- argStr = "?" + encoded_kwargs
+ argData = None
+ encoded_kwargs = urlencode(kwargs.items())
+ if kwargs:
+ if (method == "GET"):
+ argStr = "?%s" %(encoded_kwargs)
+ else:
+ argData = encoded_kwargs
headers = {}
if (self.agent):
if (self.username):
headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + b64encode("%s:%s" %(
self.username, self.password))
- if method == "POST":
- headers["Content-type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
- headers["Content-length"] = len(encoded_kwargs)
- c = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.domain)
+ req = urllib2.Request(
+ "http://%s/%s.%s%s" %(self.domain, self.uri, self.format, argStr),
+ argData, headers
+ )
try:
- c.putrequest(method, "%s.%s%s" %(
- uri, self.format, argStr))
- for item in headers.iteritems():
- c.putheader(*item)
- c.endheaders()
- if method == "POST":
- c.send(encoded_kwargs)
- r = c.getresponse()
-
- if (r.status == 304):
+ handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+ if "json" == self.format:
+ return json.loads(handle.read())
+ else:
+ return handle.read()
+ except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
+ if (e.code == 304):
return []
- elif (r.status != 200):
+ else:
raise TwitterError(
"Twitter sent status %i for URL: %s.%s using parameters: (%s)\ndetails: %s" %(
- r.status, uri, self.format, encoded_kwargs, r.read()))
- if "json" == self.format:
- return json.loads(r.read())
- else:
- return r.read()
- finally:
- c.close()
-
+ e.code, uri, self.format, encoded_kwargs, e.fp.read()))
+
class Twitter(TwitterCall):
"""
The minimalist yet fully featured Twitter API class.