print "Tweet to HTML Converter\n"
#
print "(C)2013.  Distributed under the GNU General Public License compliments of P. K. Carlisle LLC " 
print "at www.pkcarlisle.com. Notes to mail@pkcarlisle.com. Follow on Twitter @pkcarlislellc."
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# This prints simple usage instructions
print "\n\nThis program needs two pieces of input...\n\n"
print "1) Tweet text.  Example: @phil check out this #new #app\n"
print "2) A web address.  Example: http://www.pkcarlisle.com/tweet2html.py \n\n"
print "This program creates two pieces of output...\n\n"
print "3) A single block of HTML code suitable for adding to a webpage as a link to an image:"
print "   Example: http://twitter.com/share?text=%40phil%20check%20out%20this%20%23new%20%23app&url=http://www.pkcarlisle.com/tweet2html.py \n"
print "4) AND extended HTML for inserting directly into HTML code:"
print "   Example: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/share?text=%40phil%20check%20out%20this%20%23new%20%23app&url=http://www.pkcarlisle.com/tweet2html.py\">Share on Twitter</a>\n\n"
# Get the TEXT portion of the Tweet here...
original = raw_input("Enter text of the Tweet... ")
if len(original) == 0:
    print "Invalid (blank) tweet text entered!"
    exit(1)
else:
    stringread = len(original)  
    charcounter = 0
    tweettext = 'http://twitter.com/share?text='
    while charcounter < stringread:
        if original[charcounter] == '@':
            tweettext = tweettext + '%40'
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
        elif original[charcounter] == '#':
            tweettext = tweettext + '%23'
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
        elif original[charcounter] == ' ':
            tweettext = tweettext + '%20'
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
        else:
            tweettext = tweettext + original[charcounter]   
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
#
#The user text has been parsed, now start the URL portion...
tweettext = tweettext + '&url'
# Get the URL portion of the HTML here...
siteurl = raw_input("Type or COPY\\PASTE a URL... ")
if len(siteurl) == 0:
    print "Invalid (blank) URL entered!"
    exit(1)
else:
    stringread = len(siteurl)   
    charcounter = 0
#variable convsiteurl is a converted/reformatted variable siteurl
#variable convsiteurl declared containing first char of site name
    convsiteurl = '='
    while charcounter < stringread:
        if siteurl[charcounter] == '@':
            convsiteurl = convsiteurl + '%40'
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
        elif siteurl[charcounter] == '#':
            convsiteurl = convsiteurl + '%23'
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
        elif siteurl[charcounter] == ' ':
            convsiteurl = convsiteurl + '%20'
            charcounter = charcounter + 1            
        else:
            convsiteurl = convsiteurl + siteurl[charcounter]    
            charcounter = charcounter + 1
#use now cleaned and converted strings for final output
tweettext = tweettext + convsiteurl  # make a simplified Twitter link
# make a complete HTML statement and embed the Twitter link
exturl = '<a href="'            
exturl = exturl + tweettext
exturl = exturl + '">Share on Twitter</a>'
#print it prettily
print "\nThe direct Twitter Compatible Link is:"
print tweettext
print "\n\nThe extended HTML code is:"
print exturl
print "\n"