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Python Programming Blueprints
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Python Programming Blueprints

by Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building the Twitter voting application

Now we have our environment set up and we have seen how to create an app on Twitter and perform three-legged authentication, it is time to get right into building the actual application that will count the Twitter votes.

We start off by creating a model class that will represent a hashtag. Create a file called hashtag.py in the twittervotes/core/twitter directory with the following content:

class Hashtag:    def __init__(self, name):        self.name = name        self.total = 0        self.refresh_url = None

This is a very simple class. We can pass a name as an argument to the initializer; the name is the hashtag without the hash sign (#). In the initializer, we define a few properties: the name, which will be set to the ...

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