How do I extend a python module? Adding new functionality to the `python-twitter` package

Question

What are the best practices for extending an existing Python module – in this case, I want to extend the python-twitter package by adding new methods to the bas

Answer 1

May I suggest not to reinvent the Wheel here? I'm building a >6k line Twitter Client for 2 month now, at first I checked python-twitter too, but it's lagging a lot behind the recent API changes,, Development doesn't seem to be that active either, also there was(at least when I last checked) no support for OAuth/xAuth).

So after searching around a bit more I discovered tweepy:
http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy

Pros: Active development, OAauth/xAuth and up to date with the API.
Chances are high that what you need is already in there.

So I suggest going with that, it's working for me, the only thing I had to add was xAuth(that got merge back to tweepy :)

Oh an a shameless plug, if you need to parse Tweets and/or format them to HTML use my python version of the twitter-text-* libraries:
http://github.com/BonsaiDen/twitter-text-python

This thing is unittestetd an guaranteed to parse Tweets just like Twitter.com does it.