Britney Spears feat. New York Times

spearsNYTimes.py

import sys
import re
import json
import random

s = []

from nytimesarticle import articleAPI
for i in range(0, 100):
    api = articleAPI('74548056debe1698254a3a07babc9f84:3:60371965')
    res = api.search(q = 'Britney Spears', fq = {'lead_paragraph':'Britney Spears'}, begin_date = 20000101, end_date = 20001231, page = str(i))
    for m in res['response']['docs']:
        s.append(m['lead_paragraph'])
        
with open("britney.txt", "w") as text_file:
    for item in s:

        text_file.write(item)
        
britSen = list()
search = r'\b(?:Spears|SPEARS)\b [A-Za-z ]+'

for sentence in open('britney.txt'):
    lines = sentence.split('.')
    for line in lines:
        results = re.findall(search, line)
        if len(results) > 0:
            britSen.append(results)
            # print results
            
fuckYouOldBritSen = []
for listbitches in britSen:
    listbabes = britSen[0:]
    for listbabes in listbitches:
        fuckYouOldBritSen.append(listbabes)
#     print fuckYouOldBritSen

first = []

oops = open('oops.txt', 'r')
for sentence in oops:
    line = sentence.split('\n')
    for eachline in line:
        firstword = eachline.split(' ')[0]
        firstwords = firstword.strip(',')
        
        if len(firstwords) > 0:
            first.append(firstwords)
#       print firstwords

for i in range(len(fuckYouOldBritSen)):
    r1 = random.choice(first)
    r2 = random.choice(fuckYouOldBritSen)
    line = r1 + ' '+ r2
    print line

when I try to run a basic api.search command in python 3.4 like you've done here I get the following stack trace. What do you think is causing this?

C:\Python34\python.exe C:/Users/robin.tanner/OneDrive/Documents/GitHub-Projects/news_streaming/berkeley.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/robin.tanner/OneDrive/Documents/GitHub-Projects/news_streaming/berkeley.py", line 6, in <module>
    articles = api.search(q = 'Obama')
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\nytimesarticle.py", line 115, in search
    return r.json()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests-2.7.0-py3.4.egg\requests\models.py", line 819, in json
    return json.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting value", s, err.value)) from None
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)