tweets the national debt

tweetnationaldebt.py

import tweepy
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

CONSUMER_KEY = 'oh'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'no'
ACCESS_KEY = 'you'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'dont'


def get_national_debt():
	page = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np')
	soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
	debt = soup.find('table',{'class':'data1'}).findAll('td')[3].text
	asof = soup.find('table',{'class':'data1'}).findAll('td')[0].text

	population_url = 'http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html'
	population_page = urllib2.urlopen(population_url)
	soup = BeautifulSoup(population_page)
	population = soup.find('span',{'id':'usclocknum'}).text

	debt_amount = float(debt.replace(',',''))
	population_amount = int(population.replace(',',''))

	per_person = debt_amount / population_amount

	return "US National debt as of %s is $%s, or $%.2f for each person(%s) in the US" % (asof, debt,per_person,population)

tweet_string = get_national_debt()

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)