On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to pull down tweets with one of the many twitter APIs. The
> particular one I'm using (python-twitter), has a call:
>
> data = api.GetSearch(term="foo", page=page)
>
> The way it works, you start with page=1. It returns a list of tweets.
> If the list is empty, there are no more tweets. If the list is not
> empty, you can try to get more tweets by asking for page=2, page=3, etc.
> I've got:
>
> page = 1
> while 1:
> r = api.GetSearch(term="foo", page=page)
> if not r:
> break
> for tweet in r:
> process(tweet)
> page += 1
>
> It works, but it seems excessively fidgety. Is there some cleaner way
> to refactor this?
I'd do something like this:
def get_tweets(term):
for page in itertools.count(1):
r = api.GetSearch(term, page)
if not r:
break
for tweet in r:
yield tweet
for tweet in get_tweets("foo"):
process(tweet)
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