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- [Instructor] In this self check exercise

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I'd like you to use a cursor object

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as I demonstrated in the preceding video

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this time to get and display ten followers

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for the NASAKepler account that you used

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in the preceding self check exercise.

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So go ahead and pause the
video and give that a shot

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then come back here to see the answer.

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Okay first step is going
to be to create the list

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in which you're going to
store the actual user names

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that come back.

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Then we of course need to
set up the Tweepi cursor.

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Again we'll be calling the
API objects followers method

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this time however we're
going to pass to that method

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the NASAKepler account as the argument.

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So once you have that cursor
remember that it is lazy

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and it doesn't do anything
until you iterate over it

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and the way you start to do that

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is by calling the cursor's items method.

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The cursor's items method

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is going to receive as it's argument

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the number of total items
you would like to get

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and again it will manage not
only invoking the Twitter API

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over the internet for you

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but it will work in if you've
configured the API object

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to wait on rate limits doing
the automatic waiting for you.

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So depending on how many accounts
you're actually requesting

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to get followers for
the Kepler account here,

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this loop could take a
very long time to execute

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if you hit those rate limits
for a 15 minute interval.

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So for each of the accounts that we get

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we're going to grab that screen name

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and append it to the list.

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So I'll go ahead and execute that.

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And by the way when you
execute those API calls,

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those API object calls,

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remember there could be delays

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because those are making
requests over the internet

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so things like your connection speed

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could affect how fast
results come back to you.

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And then finally we're
going to join together

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by spaces the followers.

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In this case we didn't bother
to sort them alphabetically

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we simply concatenated
them for display purposes.