Tango - Easy Twitter utilities for Django-based applications
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As a Django user, I've often wanted a way to easily implement Twitter scraping calls in my applications.
I could write them from scratch using the already existing (and quite excellent) library called
"Python-Twitter" (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/)...

However, Python-Twitter doesn't (currently) handle some things well, such as using Twitter's
Search API. I've found myself wanting a largely drop-in solution for this (and other)
problems...

Thus, we now have Tango.


Installation
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You can install this like any other Django-app; just throw it in as a new app, register it in your
settings as an "Installed App", and sync the models.

Tango requires (much like Python-Twitter, because they had the right idea :D) a library called
"simplejson" - Django should include this by default, but if you need the library for any reason,
you can grab it at the following link:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson

Tango also works well as a standalone Python library, so feel free to use it however you like.


Example Use
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An extremely generic, and somewhat useless, demo is below. Instantiate your class by passing in a 
Twitter username, then all functions will come off of that. Results are returned as a list.

testList = tango.setup(username="ryanmcgrath")
newTestList = testList.getSearchTimeline("b", "20")
for testTweet in newTestList:
    print testTweet


Questions, Comments, etc?
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I want to note that Tango is *not* like other Twitter libraries - we don't handle authentication or
anything of the sort (yet); there are already battle-tested solutions out there for both Basic Auth and 
OAuth. This isn't production ready quite yet.

Tango will (hopefully) be compatible with Python 3; as it stands, I think it might be now, I've just
not had the time to check over it.

My hope is that Tango is so plug-and-play that you'd never *have* to ask any questions, but if
you feel the need to contact me for this (or other) reasons, you can hit me up 
at ryan@venodesigns.net.