def listing(feed): """ This is normally called the hashtag (# tag) by twitter """ feed_list = feed.split() x = [] for i in feed_list: if i.startswith("#"): x.append(punctuation.sub("",i)) else: x.append(None) y = [] for i in x: if i != None: y.append(i) if not y: return None return y[0] # indexed at zero for testing purposes; this list usually contents other tags...
def twitterSearch(feed): """ A twitter is an entity.. denoted by @<some name> e.g. @vicmiclovich, @cnn, etc. """ feed_list = feed.split() x = [] for i in feed_list: if i.startswith("@"): x.append(punctuation.sub("",i)) else: x.append(None) """Implement the part that should strip off all None values to only keep fixed values""" y = [] for i in x: if i != None: y.append(i) if not y: return None return y[0] # indexed at zero for testing purposes: How would you store a list of tags?