Beginnings of Tango, an awesome Python Twitter library for Django

tango.py

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+"""
+    Django-Twitter (Tango) utility functions. Huzzah.
+"""
+
+import simplejson, urllib, urllib2
+
+class tango:
+    def __init__(self, twitter_user):
+        # Authenticate here?
+        self.twitter_user = twitter_user
+    
+    def getUserTimeline(self, optional_count):
+        userTimelineURL = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" + self.twitter_user + ".json" + ("" if optional_count is None else "?count=" + optional_count)
+        userTimeline = simplejson.load(urllib2.urlopen(userTimelineURL))
+        formattedTimeline = []
+        for tweet in userTimeline:
+            formattedTimeline.append(tweet['text'])
+        return formattedTimeline
+
+    def getSearchTimeline(self, search_query, optional_page):
+        params = urllib.urlencode({'q': search_query, 'rpp': optional_page}) # Doesn't hurt to do pages this way. *shrug*
+        searchTimeline = simplejson.load(urllib2.urlopen("http://search.twitter.com/search.json", params))
+        formattedTimeline = []
+        for tweet in searchTimeline['results']:
+            formattedTimeline.append(tweet['text'])
+        return formattedTimeline
+
+    def getTrendingTopics(self):
+        trendingTopicsURL = "http://search.twitter.com/trends.json"
+        trendingTopics = simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen(trendingTopicsURL))
+        pass # for now, coming soon
+
+