added support for testing from static file

ebooks.py

@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ if __name__=="__main__":
         guess = 0
 
     if guess == 0:
+        if DEBUG==True:
+            file = TEST_SOURCE
+            string_list = open(file).readlines()
+            for item in string_list:
+                source_tweets = item.split(",")    
+        else:
             user=SOURCE_ACCOUNT   
             source_tweets = []
             api=connect()

local_settings_example.py

@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ SOURCE_ACCOUNT = "" #The Twitter handle of the account that you'll generate twee
 ODDS = 8 #How often do you want this to run? 1/8 times?
 ORDER = 2 #how closely do you want this to hew to sensical? 1 is low and 3 is high.
 DEBUG = True #Set this to False to start Tweeting live
+TEST_SOURCE = "" #The name of a text file of a string-ified list for testing. To avoid unnecessarily hitting Twitter API.