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create the password variable

This is the start of the program. You were to write a modified
version of this code that will allow the send_to_twitter()
function to see the password variable.
Hint: you might not need to use a function.

import urllib.request
import time

def set_password():
You needed to rewrite this section.
password="C8H10N4O2"

set_password()

def send_to_twitter(msg):
password_manager = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgr()
password_manager.add_password("Twitter API",
"http://twitter.com/statuses", "starbuzzceo", password)
http_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)
page_opener = urllib.request.build_opener(http_handler)
urllib.request.install_opener(page_opener)
params = urllib.parse.urlencode( {'status': msg} )
resp = urllib.request.urlopen("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json", params)
resp.read()

Because the “password" variable is created
This is all you need to do: just
create the variable. outside a function, it is available anywhere
in the program. The “send_to_twitter()”
password=“C8H10N4O2" function should now be able to see it.

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