Delete tweet by command

deleteTweet.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+from twython import Twython, TwythonError
+import authorization
+import re
+
+def deleteTweet(): #Deletes a tweet with the given ID
+	search_results = authorization.twitter.search(q="#DeleteID", count=5, result_type='recent')
+	try:
+		for tweet in search_results["statuses"]:
+			id_to_delete = int(re.sub("\D", "", tweet["text"]))
+			authorization.twitter.destroy_status(id=id_to_delete)
+			authorization.twitter.update_status(status="Tweet "+str(id_to_delete)+" deleted!", in_reply_to_status_id = tweet["id_str"])
+			
+			log_str = "Deleted tweet with ID "+str(id_to_delete)+"\n"
+			log_file=open('log_file.txt', 'a')
+			log_file.write(log_str)
+			log_file.close()
+			print log_str,
+	except TwythonError as e:
+		print e
+		
+	return
+	

main.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import filecmp
 import shutil
 from check import *
 from retweet import *
+from deleteTweet import *
 
 import authorization
 
@@ -57,5 +58,6 @@ def main():
 	print log_str,
 	
 	retweet()
+	deleteTweet()
   
 	time.sleep (60*30)