Working version but the automatic feed is still not spawned correctly.

server/config.py

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ twitter_conf = {
 'TW_CONSUMER_SECRET' : 'env',
 'TW_ACCESS_TOKEN' : 'env',
 'TW_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET' : 'env',
+'TW_DEFAULT_TAG' : 'OpenFest2016',
 }

server/server.py

@@ -6,17 +6,17 @@ import argparse
 import eventlet
 import tweepy
 import config
+import time
 from telnetsrv.evtlet import TelnetHandler, command
-#from str import join
 
 for key in config.twitter_conf:
     if config.twitter_conf[key] == 'env':
         try:
             os.environ[key]
+            config.twitter_conf[key] = os.environ[key]
         except KeyError:
             print "Please, set the environment variable %s or set it in the config" % key
             sys.exit(1)
-    config.twitter_conf[key] = os.environ[key]
 
 logging.getLogger('').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
@@ -42,11 +42,8 @@ class TwitterApi():
         tweets = ""
         feed = self.api.search(tag, count=20)
         for i in feed:
-            # tweets.join(i, "\n")
             tweets = tweets + i.text + "\n"
-        # print type(tweets)
+        return tweets.encode('utf-8').strip()
-        return tweets
-        # return '\n'.join(tweets)
 
 
 
@@ -60,12 +57,21 @@ class TestTelnetHandler(TelnetHandler):
     authNeedPass = False
 
     twitter = TwitterApi()
-    get_tweets_event = []
+
+    # queue = eventlet.queue.Queue(10000)
+    # wait = eventlet.semaphore.CappedSemaphore(1000)
+
+    def feed_auto(self):
+        # while True:
+            self.feed = self.twitter.get_tweets_by_tag(config.twitter_conf['TW_DEFAULT_TAG'])
+            self.writeresponse(self.feed)
+            # time.sleep(5)
 
     def session_start(self):
         '''Called after the user successfully logs in.'''
-        message = self.twitter.get_tweets_by_tag("OpenFest2015")
+        self.get_tweets_event = []
-        event = eventlet.spawn_after(180, self.writemessage, message)
+        message = self.feed_auto()
+        event = eventlet.spawn(self.writemessage, message)
         self.get_tweets_event.append(event)
 
     def session_end(self):
@@ -97,8 +103,8 @@ class TestTelnetHandler(TelnetHandler):
         # if not params[0]:
         #     params[0] = "#OpenFest2016"
 
-        self.feed = self.twitter.get_tweets_by_tag("#openfest")
+        self.feed = self.twitter.get_tweets_by_tag(config.twitter_conf['TW_DEFAULT_TAG'])
-        self.writeresponse(self.feed.encode('utf-8').strip())
+        self.writeresponse(self.feed)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':