Python/Twitter script

#!/usr/bin/env python

import twython
import time
import sys

twitter = twython.core.setup()

query = "aswolk"
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
    query = sys.argv[1]

since_id = 0
rpp = 5
sleep_time = 2

def displayMessages(results, since_id):
    for message in results['results']:
        if since_id is not message['id']:
            print "%s zei: %s" % (message['from_user'], message['text'])
            since_id = message['id']
    return since_id;

while 1:
    time.sleep(2)
    results = 0
    if since_id == 0:
        results = twitter.searchTwitter(query, rpp=rpp)
    else:
        rpp = 1
        results = twitter.searchTwitter(query, since_id=since_id, rpp=rpp)
    since_id = displayMessages(results, since_id)