'Python Twitter library: cannot import it

I'm trying this presumably basic thing of importing Python Twitter library.

First I got an error in line 52, saying he couldn't upload a json library. That line of code is part of script where the library decides which json library it should import based on Python's version. I commented all lines addressing other versions of Python than the one I'm using and it worked.

Then another error popped up:

 Traceback (most recent call last):   
    File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
 import twitter
    File "C:\Python32\lib\twitter.py", line 3448
 except urllib2.HTTPError, http_error:
                         ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This one I don't understand.

I tried importing this in versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 and 3.2.2, but none worked. In one I was asked for the oauth library, then oauth2. The first one I got right, the second one couldn't.

I think this should work in 3.2.2. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

Solution 1:^[1]

That exception you mentioned is a syntax error for Python 2 code that's trying to run in python 3. I can tell because of the except syntax.

From the project page:

Install the dependencies:

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplejson
http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/
http://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2

from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-twitter/

easy_install python-twitter or pip install python-twitter should work.

Solution 2:^[2]

I had to change the installed library to be able to import pytwitter on python 3:

pip uninstall python-twitter
pip install python-twitter-v2

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