How to iterate/parse Tweepy get_user object
Question: In playing around with Tweepy I notice that the 'status' variable returned
from a call to get_user is `<tweepy.models.Status object at 0x02AAE050>`

Sure, I can call get_user.USER.status, but how can I grab that information
from the get_user call? i.e. I want to loop through user.**getstate**() and if
I find an object which requires further iteration, loop through that too

I've searched high/low of answers, but my newness to Python is causing
problems, which I'm pretty sure are easy to solve if I knew the right
questions to ask.

Thanks for any pointer here...

    
    
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    
    import sys
    
    import tweepy
    import json
    
    from pprint import pprint
    
    
    api = tweepy.API()
    
    
    
    def main():
        print "Starting."
    
        user = api.get_user('USER',include_entities=1)
    
        print "================ type ================="
        print type(user)
    
        print "================ dir ================="
        print dir(user)
    
        print "================ user ================="
        #
        # We can see 'status': <tweepy.models.Status object at 0x02AAE050>, .......but how do I "explode" that automagically?
        #
        pprint ((user).__getstate__())
    
    
    
        print "================ user.status ================="
        pprint ((user).status.__getstate__())
    
        print "================= end ================="
    
    
    
    
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
      main()
    

I was able to get the intended behaviour by using jsonpickle, using the
following code.

    
    
    import jsonpickle
    .
    .
    .
    user = api.get_user('USERNAME',include_entities=1)
        pickled = jsonpickle.encode(user)
        print(json.dumps(json.loads(pickled), indent=4, sort_keys=True))   #you could just  print pickled, but this makes it pretty
    

I'm still really interested to understand what I'm missing in understanding
how to detect and expand that status object.


Answer: try this:

api = tweepy.API(auth,parser=tweepy.parsers.JSONParser())

user = api.get_user('USER',include_entities=1)

now you can user user['status'] and others easily

