My Twitter Python script

I know there are tons of twitter python script out there. Here is my simple python command line script to send twitter update:

import twitter, sys
api = twitter.Api()

USERNAME = 'YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME'
PASSWORD = 'YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD'

api = twitter.Api(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)

if len ( sys.argv ) > 1:
 message = sys.argv[1]
else:
 message = raw_input('Your twitter message: ')

status = api.PostUpdate( message )

You're going to need Python twitter installed, of course.

Google App Engine Pending downtime

Just gone to Google App Engine's status page and saw them have scheduled downtime coming up.

Here's their relevant thread on it.

Google I/O Session 2008: Google App Engine with Django

I am in the process of porting DB Timetable from a Django deployment to Google App Engine. The biggest problem is Google runs their server on UTC. So now I have to rewrite the time calculations with PyTZ and get them working again.

Here's their session last year by Guido himself: