#!/usr/bin/python

"""
	Quick & dirty twitter "client"
	
	Version: 	0.1b
	Author: 	Ole Bakstad <ole DOT bakstad AT dibon DOT net>
	Date:		20th March 2009

	Usage:

	> tweet 'Your awesome tweet here!'
"""

import os
import sys
import ConfigParser

# Variables
homeDir = os.environ['HOME']
cfgFile = homeDir + '/' +'.tweet'

# Read config
cfg = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
cfg.read(cfgFile)

username = cfg.get('login','username')
password = cfg.get('login','password')

# Get message
rawdata =  sys.argv[1:]
message = " ".join(rawdata)

# Send message
if len(rawdata) > 0:

	os.system('curl -s -u ' + username + ':' + password + ' -d status="' + message + '" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null;');
	
	print "Tweet sent: " + message;
else:
	print 'Tweet was empty'