Twitter API with urllib2 in python

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Published on 2010-05-14T11:07:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 11:14 UTC
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I want to use the Twitter API in Python to lookup user ids from name using the lookup method. I have done similar requests simply using

response = urllib2.urlopen('http://search.twitter.com...')

but for this one I need authentication. I don't think I can do it through the Google python twitter API because it doesn't have the lookup method. Any ideas how can I can auth with urllib2??

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