import twitter

client=twitter.Api()

def view_status ():
    username= raw_input('Enter the username:')
    latest=client.GetUserTimeline(username)
    print [s.text for s in latest]
def update_status ():
    username= raw_input('Enter the username:')
    password=raw_input('Enter the password:')
    status=raw_input('Enter the status to be set:')
    client=twitter.Api(username,password)
    client.PostUpdate(status)
    print 'Status Updated!'
def recent_tweets ():
    latest=client.GetPublicTimeline()
    print [s.text for s in latest]

print '1.View status messages'
print '2.Update status'
print '3.View recent tweets'
print '4.Exit'

takeaction = {
    "1": view_status,
    "2": update_status,
    "3": recent_tweets,
    "4": exit,
    }
while True :
    choice = raw_input("Please enter your choice...  ")
    takeaction.get(choice)()