1. Streaming Twitter

2. Install pycurl library Use a lab computer From the course website Download the links from pycurl and twitter streamer Extract site-packages.zip, and you should see three files curl (folder) pycurl.pyd pycurl_ssl-7.19.0-py2.7.egg-info Copy them Go to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\, you should see a single README.txt file there Paste them there. This installs the pycurl library.

3. Run IDLE with Python 2.7.2 Click Start Type cmd in the "seasrch program or files" box Click on cmd.exe This is the command window. After the prompt, type cd C:\Python27 and Enter Then type python Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw This starts IDLE with Python 2.7.2. Go File->Open, and find twitter-stream.py that you downloaded.