new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  # encoding: utf-8
  
  """
  Created by Robert Dempsey on 02/02/2016.
  
  Example script showing how to use the Tweepy Python library to interact
  with the Twitter REST API, using available models
  
  Tweepy docs: http://tweepy.readthedocs.org/en/v3.5.0/
  Twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public
  
  """
  
  import configparser
  import tweepy
  
  
  def main():
      """Look up a user and get the top 20 friends and their statuses."""
      # Read the config file and get the goodies
      config = configparser.ConfigParser()
      config.read('../config/config.ini')
  
      # Set all of the variables we need for Twitter
      consumer_key = config['Twitter']['consumer_key']
      consumer_secret = config['Twitter']['consumer_secret']
      access_token = config['Twitter']['access_token']
      access_token_secret = config['Twitter']['access_token_secret']
  
      # Authenticate with Twitter
      auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
      auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
  
      # Create an API object to use
      api = tweepy.API(auth)
  
      # Get the latest tweets
      user = api.get_user('DistrictDataLab')
  
      # Print out various information about the user
      print("Screen name: {}".format(user.screen_name))
      print("Follower count: {}\n".format(user.followers_count))
      print("User Friend List (20)\n")
      for friend in user.friends():
          print("Screen name: {}".format(friend.screen_name))
          print("Follower count: {}".format(friend.followers_count))
          print("Latest status: {}\n".format(friend.status.text))
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      main()
  
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