Django Python Twitter

Python-Twitter+Django.py

  user = 'adeleinr'
  messages_to_display = 5
  api = twitter.Api() 
  statuses = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=messages_to_display, include_entities=True)
  messages = []
  
  for status in statuses:
    # Replaces the @username mentions with a URL
    replaced_mentions = re.sub(r'(@[^ $]+)', r'<a href="http://twitter.com/\1">\1</a>',status.text);
    # Replaces the #tag's with a URL
    replaced_hashtags = re.sub(r'(#[^ $]+)', r'<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23\1">\1</a>',replaced_mentions);
    # Replaces the published times with a URL
    replaced_times = (replaced_hashtags + " "+
                      "<span class='tiny-font'><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/"+
                      user+"/status/"+str(status.id)+"'>"+str(status.relative_created_at+
                      "</a></span>"))
    messages.append(replaced_times)