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I have a module collection.py that functions as a tool to collect tweets using tweepy. It has two classes : Authentication and Collection.

Authentication class will create an object that acts as a starting point to collect data from twitter. An instance of this will the an argument for Collection.

Collection class will create a 'collection' object, it has different methods on how to collect the data, by Collect_object.collect(method = ...), through home_timeline, through Cursor(api.home_timeline, ....), and also through user_timeline.

I would like to know how to design better, and using better techniques. (for functionality, readability, compactness, and becoming a library)

Below are the code and usage example.

collection.py:

import tweepy
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
import numpy
import datetime



class Authentication(object):

 def __init__(self, consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret):

 self.consumer_key = consumer_key
 self.consunmer_secret = consumer_secret
 self.access_token = access_token
 self.access_secret = access_secret

 self.auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
 self.auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
 self.api = tweepy.API(self.auth)


class Collection(object):

 def __init__(self, auth_object):

 self.auth_object = auth_object
 self.api = self.auth_object.api
 self.collection = 

 def collect_home(self, method = 'Default', n = 20, **kwargs):

 if method == 'Default':

 public_stats = self.api.home_timeline()

 if method == 'Cursor':

 public_stats = tweepy.Cursor(self.api.home_timeline, **kwargs).items(n)

 self.stats = [stat for stat in public_stats]
 self.collection.extend(self.stats)

 date = datetime.datetime.now()
 time = date.timetuple()
 year = time.tm_year
 month = time.tm_mon
 day = time.tm_mday
 hour = time.tm_hour
 mnt = time.tm_min
 time_string = 'hour_min___date___'.format(
 str(hour), str(mnt), str(day), str(month), str(year))
 self.time_collected = time_string;

 return self.stats, self.time_collected

 def collect_user(self, username, n = 20, **kwargs):

 user_stats = tweepy.Cursor(self.api.user_timeline, 
 screen_name = username, **kwargs).items(n)

 self.stats = [stat for stat in user_stats]
 self.collection.extend(self.stats)

 date = datetime.datetime.now()
 time = date.timetuple()
 year = time.tm_year
 month = time.tm_mon
 day = time.tm_mday
 hour = time.tm_hour
 mnt = time.tm_min
 time_string = 'hour_min___date___'.format(
 str(hour), str(mnt), str(day), str(month), str(year))
 self.time_collected = time_string;

 return self.stats, self.time_collected

 def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
 numpy.save(*args, **kwargs)

Usage example :

consumer_key = '...............................'
consumer_secret = '...............................'
access_token = '...............................'
access_secret = '..............................'

Init = Authentication(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret)
Collect = Collection(Init)

Collect.collect_user('Reuters', n = 50)
Collect.collect_user('anbarief', n = 50)

data = Collect.collection