Template tag to grab latest Twitter status (with tweepy)

twitter.py

import tweepy
import inspect
import re

from django.conf import settings
from django import template
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

register = template.Library()

class LatestStatus(template.Node):
	def __init__(self, var):
		self.var = var
	def render(self, context):
		auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(settings.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, settings.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET)
		auth.set_access_token(settings.TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY, settings.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET)
		api = tweepy.API(auth)
		context[self.var] = api.user_timeline()[0]
		return ''

def latest_status(parser, token):
	try:
		bits = token.split_contents()
	except ValueError:
		raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag requires arguments" % bits[0])
	if bits[1] != 'as':
		raise TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag's second argument must be 'as'" % bits[0])
	if len(bits) != 3:
		raise TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag's requires exactly 2 arguments" % bits[0])
	return LatestStatus(bits[2])