title: Loading `status` objects from File?
body: <p>A few months ago, I started grabbing Tweets from twitter for a data analysis project. I used Tweepy and python3.3 to get the status objects and dump them to a file, one file per day. </p>
  
  <p>I mostly did this because I only wanted to quickly gather data, however I'm facing this problem:</p>
  
  <p>Since the status objects are now strings, I cannot convert them back using tweepy - as far as I can tell - by loading them from my files. </p>
  
  <p>Which sucks, because I now realize I truly only need the <code>status._json</code> part of the object. For whatever reason I thought otherwise 3 months ago. </p>
  
  <p>My question is this:</p>
  
  <p>Is there a known way of converting these <code>status</code> objects back from strings ?</p>
  
  <p>I have checked <code>Tweepy</code> docs and googled about, and I am pretty sure that this is not possible by given tools. </p>
  
  <p>The only alternative I can see is to split the string manually, which seems pretty ugly.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Example</strong> of a status object saved in my file:<br>
  <a href="http://pastebin.com/eQEi62y4" rel="nofollow">pastebin</a></p>
  
  <p>These are stored per line, by simply appending them to the file each time a new one is grabbed from twitter.</p>