Twitter favorites of a user through command line

twit_faves_cli.py

'''
   Usage:
        > python twit_faves_cli.py username
'''
import httplib
import urllib
import json
import sys

base_url = 'api.twitter.com'
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(base_url)

def faves(user):
	conn.request("GET","/1/favorites/" + user + ".json")
	tweets = conn.getresponse().read()
	return tweets

def display(tweets):
	tweets = json.loads(tweets)
	size = len(tweets)
	for i in range(0,size):
		print "* \"" + tweets[i]['text'] + "\" ~ @" + tweets[i]['user']['screen_name']
		print ""

user = sys.argv[1]
print "-----Favorites of user @" + user 
tweets = faves(user)
display(tweets)