"""
phoebe_tweets.py
phoebe_cat posts to twitter.
"""
import urllib
import phoebe_text
import random


def truncate(string,target):
    if len(string) > target:
        return string[:(target-3)] + "..."
    else:
        return string

def tweet(username,password,message):
    message = truncate(message,140)
    data = urllib.urlencode({"status" : message})
    res = urllib.urlopen("http://%s:%s@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" % \
    (username,password), data)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    t = random.sample(phoebe_text.talk, 1)
    tweet('phoebe_cat','password_here',t[0])