piface twitter chicken

[mypifi]

hi there

i have a piface and have tried unsucessfully to get the twitter chicken demo working. i have downloaded the twitter api s andworks in terminal but when i try and run the twitter_chicken it comes up with an error in line 21 twitter.Api anyone know why and how to solve this?

many thanks in advance.

[davef21370]

I've no idea how to solve this but couldn't ignore a post entitled "piface twitter chicken"

Classic!

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Seeing the full error message might help...?

[mypifi]

the error is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./twitter_listen.py", line 50 in <module>
main()
File "./twitter_listen.py", line 21, in main
api = twitter()
Typeerror: "module" object is not callable

[davef21370]

Is "twitter" the module? As in...

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import twitter

...at the top of your script.

If so you can't say api=twitter as twitter is the module, not a class. It would need to be api=twitter.something

I may be very wrong but let us know how you get on.

Cheers.
Dave.

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If it's this library: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ , it should be:

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import twitter
...
api = twitter.Api()

[mypifi]

Hi thanks for the help the error is still the same apart from the last line which reads:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Api'

[-rst-]

Hmm, did you too fall into the naming trap: is your own script named twitter.py? If so, it obscures the 'module twitter' from the library - the interpreter thinks your script is 'module twitter'... rename your script (in typical tutorial way, maybe 'mytwitter.py') and it works...

[mypifi]

Hi no its called twitter_user.py it's one of the demo scripts with the pi face add on

[mypifi]

Here's the clicky for the script

https://github.com/tompreston/twitter_c ... en_user.py

[-rst-]

Nothing obvious sticks out...

[davef21370]

Code looks fine, just been here http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ and everything matches what you're doing.
I'd try opening the twitter module and looking for the Api class, if it's there your code should work, if it isn't then assume dark forces are at work and re-install the module.

[mypifi]

Many thanks there is a api.py in twitter folder is that the one?

[tonyhughes]

i have a piface

Sorry to hear that.

I went to the nightclub last week, and there were some dogfaces. So you are not alone out there.

[mypifi]

Decided today to reflash the card with the image for piface and re download twitter and try again, now it works and I have done a quick write up with a video http://smstextblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/ ... t.html?m=1