Feature-Request: TinyURL replacement about python-twitter HOT 7 CLOSED

Seems like a useful feature, but does it belong in the Twitter API wrapper 
itself?

I think it does since the goal is to make it as usable as possible. Having long 
urls
and having the message default to error because the URL is too long seems like 
a bug
to me. Having this small yet useful thing will seems like a error handler 
(preventer). 

Alternatively I would like to see the message gets split into sequential 
messages.
Usually that's the way SMS works once u exceed a certain number, the message 
will
split  the messsage between the number of SMS necessary.

@acolorado
About splitting messages, acolorado, you can check issue 40. I made a little 
patch
and placed there.
On wrapping tinyurl, does not seem to be difficult! Maybe on that spare time?
:)

Regards,
Rogério Schneider

Find a patch attached for simple function to accomplish this. 

Call api.ShortenUrl([url]) and a string is returned of the tinyurl for that 
URL. 

Added the beginnings of this in changeset

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/detail?r=6b05622a2e1a6a8ca0e082e4
61ad2cef2d4f6c38

TinyURL example and the framework for more