#!/usr/bin/env python

class Category(object):

"""A class representing the suggested user category structure used by the twitter API.

The UserStatus structure exposes the following properties:

category.name

category.slug

category.size

"""

def __init__(self, **kwargs):

"""An object to hold a Twitter suggested user category .

This class is normally instantiated by the twitter.Api class and

returned in a sequence.

Args:

name:

name of the category

slug:

size:

"""

param_defaults = {

'name': None,

'slug': None,

'size': None,

}

for (param, default) in param_defaults.iteritems():

setattr(self, param, kwargs.get(param, default))

@property

def Name(self):

return self.name or False

@property

def Slug(self):

return self.slug or False

@property

def Size(self):

return self.size or False

@staticmethod

def NewFromJsonDict(data):

"""Create a new instance based on a JSON dict.

Args:

data: A JSON dict, as converted from the JSON in the twitter API

Returns:

A twitter.Category instance

"""

return Category(name=data.get('name', None),

slug=data.get('slug', None),

size=data.get('size', None))