old_contents: # Import json parsing library
  import json
  
  # Import the necessary methods from "twitter" library
  from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError, TwitterStream
  
  # Import "ConfigParser" library to load settings ("configparser" in python 3)
  from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
  
  # Load API variables from settings.cfg file
  parser = SafeConfigParser()
  parser.read('settings.cfg')
  
  settings_dict = dict(parser.items('twitter_settings'))
  
  oauth = OAuth(settings_dict['access_token'], settings_dict['access_secret'], settings_dict['consumer_key'], settings_dict['consumer_secret'])
  
  # Initiate the connection to Twitter REST API
  twitter = Twitter(auth=oauth)
              
  # Search for latest tweets about query term
  print twitter.search.tweets(q='satan')
new_contents: # Import json parsing library
  import json
  
  # Import the necessary methods from "twitter" library
  from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError, TwitterStream
  
  # Import "ConfigParser" library to load settings ("configparser" in python 3)
  from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
  
  # Load API variables from settings.cfg file
  parser = SafeConfigParser()
  parser.read('settings.cfg')
  
  settings_dict = dict(parser.items('twitter_settings'))
  
  oauth = OAuth(settings_dict['access_token'], settings_dict['access_secret'], settings_dict['consumer_key'], settings_dict['consumer_secret'])
  
  # Initiate the connection to Twitter REST API
  twitter = Twitter(auth=oauth)
  
  # Load query term from configuration file
  query_term = parser.get('query_settings','query_term')
     
  # Search for latest tweets about query term
  # Tweets has components 'search_metadata' and 'statuses' - we want the latter
  tweets = twitter.search.tweets(q=query_term)['statuses']
  
  # Extract tweetID, username and text of tweets returned from search
  
  for tweet in tweets:
  	print tweet['id_str']
  	print tweet['user']['screen_name']
  	print tweet['text']
subject: Add initial tweet extraction / load query term from config file