Comments on: django + twitter.com: automatic new statuses

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By: Karol Zielinski

Karol Zielinski — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:25:03 +0000

@Thomas

I agree. In more complicated examples it’s much better to use external library. However in easy examples – it’s not necessary to include huge libraries into our code.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:23:13 +0000

Check out Tweepy – http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy. It’ll save you a lot of time if you decide to add additional Twitter integration later.

By: Karol Zielinski

Karol Zielinski — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:30:25 +0000

@John

I totally agree! However in this example I wanted to show the easiest possible way to communicate with twitter. That’s why I don’t cache any exceptions, check response status, etc.

However in real, production environment – I agree. It has to be done like you just said.

By: John Boxall

John Boxall — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:15:55 +0000

Whenever you’re communicating with other services, remember to consider how your code will behave when that service goes down.

If you’re not catching exceptions from HTTP errors and handling them gracefully you can be opening yourself to all kinds of nasty errors.

For example, let’s say you’re pulling Twitter status updates onto your homepage – what happens if Twitter goes down? Does your homepage go down too because you forgot to catch the HTTP error thrown by urllib2?

Always wrap this kind of thing in a try/except and have a fallback!

Cheers,

John

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