def send_to_twitter():
	msg = "I am a message that will be sent to Twitter"
	password_manager = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgr()
	password_manager.add_password("Twitter API",
	"http://twitter.com/statuses", "...", "...")
	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()