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using variable from returns in python

I am currently using python-twitter module and I want to be able to isolate a string from the return I get with api.GetFollowersPaged(). When I run the code to print the return I get something that looks like this:

[User(ID=...., ScreenName=....)]

how could I isolate just the value of either ID or ScreenName and assign it to another variable. I have tried to use

print ScreenName

but recieve a NameError telling me ScreenName is not defined.

Solution

  • I did find a way to do what I was trying to do I switched to tweepy and wrote the following script

    Users = tweepy.Cursor (api.followers, screen_name= whatever).items ()
while True:
    try:
        User= next (Users)
    except tweepy.TweepError:
        time.sleep (60*15)
        User = next (Users)
    except StopIteration:
        break
   retsn= user.screen_name
   print '@' + retsn

    Thanks to everyone for trying to help and hopefully this helps someone someday