twitter.Api.GetTrendsCurrent() does not work

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. attempt to execute twitter.Api.GetTrendsCurrent()
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The list of triends should be assigned

This is what I get instead

>>> a = api.GetTrendsCurrent()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "twitter.py", line 2435, in GetTrendsCurrent
    for t in data['trends']:
KeyError: 'trends'

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

python-twitter 0.8.2 with python 2.7.2 on ubuntu linux 

Please provide any additional information below.

The GET trends/current call is listed as deprecated on dev.twitter.com

The new call is GET trends/:woeid to get the top 10 trends for "woeid" and GET 
trends/available to list woeid available

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Kris.Mus...@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2012 at 1:39

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I have the same problem on Freebsd 9.0/amd64

Temporary workarround is to define the method yourself

def GetTrendsCurrent(self, exclude=None, woeid="1"):
        parameters = {}
        if exclude:
                parameters['exclude'] = exclude
        url = '%(url)s/trends/%(woeid)s.json' % { "url" : self.base_url, "woeid" : woeid }
        json = self._FetchUrl(url, parameters=parameters)
        data = simplejson.loads(json)
        self._CheckForTwitterError(data)
        trends = []

        for t in data[0]['trends']:
                trends.append(twitter.Trend.NewFromJsonDict(t, timestamp = data[0]['created_at']))
        return trends

Then override the api's method with your new method

api.GetTrendsCurrent = types.MethodType( GetTrendsCurrent, api )

I have attached a patch

Original comment by Daniel.F...@gmail.com on 15 May 2013 at 2:36

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Attachments:

• patch-GetTrendsCurrent.diff