old_contents: #Credit to Marco Bonzanini CC-BY 4.0
  
  import tweepy
  from tweepy import OAuthHandler
  from tweepy import TweepError
  
  consumer_key = 'KGrJyI9GdujKcowMfrheB78dR'
  consumer_secret = 'TEa81xn0OZOwebVyNccqQFkY2Qe0qPJbHixz1GZQZlJZ55jY2V'
  access_token = '3021600922-wF6n5jmtjnd6Ip16L3CguHxK4p19OblPXjvJYvF'
  access_secret = 'fVpGcfRkzJB0C0lyRUEMr7lGOhz8j1cBQ8PUyQx4FWzaK'
  
  def scrape_tweets(user_id, tweets_scraped):
      auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
      auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
  
      api = tweepy.API(auth)
  
      # the 10 is an arbitrary value
      # using too much bandwidth puts the Twitter Police on you
      #for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(10):
      f = open("scrapings.text", "w+")
      try:
          timeline = api.user_timeline(screen_name = user_id, include_rts = True, count = tweets_scraped)
      except TweepError:
          print("Error scraping tweets.\n")
          f.close()
          return 1
  
      for tweet in timeline:
          text = u''.join(tweet.text)
          text = text.replace("\n","")
  
          f.write(text.encode('utf-8') + "\n")
      f.close()
      return 0
  
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      scrape_tweets("potus", 3)
new_contents: #Credit to Marco Bonzanini CC-BY 4.0
  
  import tweepy
  from tweepy import OAuthHandler
  from tweepy import TweepError
  
  consumer_key = 'KGrJyI9GdujKcowMfrheB78dR'
  consumer_secret = 'TEa81xn0OZOwebVyNccqQFkY2Qe0qPJbHixz1GZQZlJZ55jY2V'
  access_token = '3021600922-wF6n5jmtjnd6Ip16L3CguHxK4p19OblPXjvJYvF'
  access_secret = 'fVpGcfRkzJB0C0lyRUEMr7lGOhz8j1cBQ8PUyQx4FWzaK'
  
  def scrape_tweets(user_id, tweets_scraped):
      auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
      auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
  
      api = tweepy.API(auth)
  
      # the 10 is an arbitrary value
      # using too much bandwidth puts the Twitter Police on you
      #for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(10):
      f = open("scrapings.text", "w+")
      try:
          timeline = api.user_timeline(screen_name = user_id, include_rts = True, count = tweets_scraped)
      except TweepError:
          print("Error scraping tweets.\n")
          f.close()
          return 1
  
      for tweet in timeline:
          text = u''.join(tweet.text)
          text = text.replace("\n","  ")
  
          f.write(text.encode('utf-8') + "\n")
      f.close()
      return 0
  
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      scrape_tweets("potus", 3)
subject: Replace line endings with spaces instead of nothing.