Proxy authentication setting about python-twitter HOT 5 OPEN

Accepting.  This will be addressed post-0.6 with the HTTP layer rewrite.

I have python-twitter 0.6;  how does one setup using an HTTP proxy and 
authentication?

Change _GetOpener function in twitter.py with :

  def _GetOpener(self, url, username=None, password=None):
    proxies = {'http': 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@PROXY_SERVER:80/'}
    proxyHandler = self._urllib.ProxyHandler(proxies)
    if username and password:
      self._AddAuthorizationHeader(username, password)
      handler = self._urllib.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
      (scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment) = urlparse.urlparse(url)
      handler.add_password(Api._API_REALM, netloc, username, password)
      opener = self._urllib.build_opener(handler, proxyHandler)
    else:
      opener = self._urllib.build_opener(proxyHandler)
    opener.addheaders = self._request_headers.items()
    return opener

for non http proxies, replace http with respective proxy

Here is the final twitter.py, look into documentation (of Api class) to see how 
to use it with proxy.