prompt the user for tweet text and return it urlencoded

Encode Tweet

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib

def encode_tweet(tweet):
    base_url="http://twitter.com/home?"
    query = {"status": tweet}
    return base_url+urllib.urlencode(query)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    tweet = raw_input("paste or type a tweet to encode: ")
    print ""
    print encode_tweet(tweet)
    print ""