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Streaming Twitter. 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
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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.
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.