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tweepy error?

Hi ! I've written this code to watch after different informations in tweetee but I get an error:

<pre>

import tweepy
fichier = open('/home/cpicard443/tweet.txt', 'w')
consumer_key = '*************'
consumer_secret = '**********'
access_token = '********'
access_token_secret = '**************'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
userToExtractData = api.get_user('@etave45')
fichier.write("Description: " + userToExtractData.description)
fichier.write("User id: " + userToExtractData.id_str)
fichier.write("Language: " + userToExtractData.lang)
fichier.write("Account created at: " + str(userToExtractData.created_at))
if userToExtractData.location is not None:
    fichier.write("Location: " + userToExtractData.location)
if userToExtractData.time_zone is not None:
    fichier.write("Time zone: " + userToExtractData.time_zone)
fichier.write("Number of tweets: " + str(userToExtractData.statuses_count))
fichier.write("Number of followers: " + str(userToExtractData.followers_count))
fichier.write("Following: " + str(userToExtractData.friends_count))
fichier.write("A member of " + str(userToExtractData.listed_count) + " lists.")

statuses = api.user_timeline(id = userToExtractData.id, count = 2)
for status in statuses:
    fichier.write("***")
    fichier.write("Tweet id: " + status.id_str)
    fichier.write(status.text)

    fichier.write('\n')
    fichier.write("Retweet count: " + str(status.retweet_count))
    fichier.write("Favorite count: " + str(status.favorite_count))
    fichier.write(status.created_at)
    fichier.write("Status place: " + str(status.place))
    fichier.write("Source: " + status.source)
    fichier.write("Coordinates: " + str(status.coordinates))

</pre>

I get a Name error saying that the variable status is not defined (Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 7, in <module> NameError: name 'status' is not defined)

On my computer, the code is running but not here. Why?

deleted-user-2536065 | 2 posts | June 9, 2017, 4:20 p.m. | permalink

That's not the code you're running. There's no reference to status anywhere near line 7, and your traceback seems to be referring to <stdin> How are you running the code?

Staff glenn | 9718 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | June 9, 2017, 5:36 p.m. | permalink

I'm running the code in the console (copy/paste in the console). There is a reference to status here: for status in statuses:

deleted-user-2536065 | 2 posts | June 10, 2017, 6:37 a.m. | permalink

I think Glenn is saying that in your code above, line 7 is auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret), and not status. Do you have the exact code that your ran? Perhaps it is a line indentation problem? (eg: if you are outside of the for loop, or if you referenced status before the for loop, then 'status' would not be defined)

Staff conrad | 4232 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | June 10, 2017, 11:08 a.m. | permalink