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How can I read the API authentication data from a file using Python?

I am having trouble with a "Bad Authentication" error when reading my API keys from a file as such:

#!/usr/local/bin/python
import tweepy

#open a file called "keys" with keys and tokens for Twitter separated by newlines
keyFile = open('keys', 'r')
consumer_key = keyFile.readline()
consumer_secret = keyFile.readline()
access_token = keyFile.readline()
access_token_secret = keyFile.readline()
keyFile.close()
print "consumer key: " + consumer_key
print "consumer secret: " + consumer_secret
print "access token: " + access_token
print "access token secret: " + access_token_secret

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

If I manually set my keys, like with consumer_key = "xxx", it works fine. Any tips on why is doesn't work when reading from file? Thanks.

Solution

  • So it turns out Python was reading the newline characters as well. The solution was to strip the hidden characters with rstrip():

    consumer_key = keyFile.readline().rstrip()