get twitter status

gettwitter.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright 2010 (C) Luis Pedro Coelho
# License: MIT
import urllib2
import simplejson

header = '''\
Luis Pedro Coelho
http://luispedro.org
'''
username = 'luispedrocoelho'


microsummary = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/%s.json?count=1' % username).read()
status = simplejson.loads(microsummary)
status = status[0]['text']

def wrap(status):
    if len(status) < 72: return status
    words = status.split()
    lines = []
    line = []
    while words:
        next_word = words.pop(0)
        if line and sum(map(len,line)) + len(line) + len(next_word) > 72:
            lines.append(" ".join(line))
            line = ['    ']
        line.append(next_word)
    lines.append(" ".join(line))
    return "\n".join(lines)

status = wrap(status)

print header
print status
print '(http://twitter.com/%s)' % username