added support for testing from static file

ebooks.py

@@ -39,17 +39,23 @@ if __name__=="__main__":
         guess = 0
 
     if guess == 0:
-        user=SOURCE_ACCOUNT   
-        source_tweets = []
-        api=connect()
-        max_id=None
-        for x in range(17)[1:]:
-            source_tweets_iter, max_id = grab_tweets(api,max_id)
-            source_tweets += source_tweets_iter
-        print "{0} tweets found".format(len(source_tweets))
-        if len(source_tweets) == 0:
-            print "Error fetching tweets from Twitter. Aborting."
-            sys.exit()
+        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()
+            max_id=None
+            for x in range(17)[1:]:
+                source_tweets_iter, max_id = grab_tweets(api,max_id)
+                source_tweets += source_tweets_iter
+            print "{0} tweets found".format(len(source_tweets))
+            if len(source_tweets) == 0:
+                print "Error fetching tweets from Twitter. Aborting."
+                sys.exit()
         mine = markov.MarkovChainer(order)
         for tweet in source_tweets:
             if re.search('([\.\!\?\"\']$)', tweet):

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.