>>>import time

>>>time.time()

//currenting timestamp to int

>>>int(time.time())

//converting to string

>>>str(time.time())

python-twitter

python-simplejson

first install python-simplejson, if in ubuntu, just using command as follows

$apt-get install python-simplejson

then, downloading python-twitter , unpackage it. then using command

  $ python setup.py build
  $ python setup.py install

then, open python.

>>> import twitter

>>> api = twitter.Api(“username”, “passworld”)

>>> posts = api.GetFriendsTimeline(‘username’)

>>> print [post.text in post as posts ];

for the file, the script should be liked:

import twitter
class mytwitter():

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()