I have a using Tweepy, a python wrapper for Twitter.I am writing a small GUI application in Python which updates my twitter account. Currently, I am just testing if the I can get connected to Twitter, hence used test() call. I am behind Squid Proxy server.What changes should I make to snippet so that I should get my work done. Setting http_proxy in bash shell did not help me. def printTweet(self): #extract tweet string tweet_str = str(self.ui.tweet_txt.toPlainText()) ; #tweet string extracted. self.ui.tweet_txt.clear() ; self.tweet_on_twitter(str); def tweet_on_twitter(self,my_tweet) : auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET); auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET) ; api = tweepy.API(auth) ; if api.test() : print 'Test successful' ; else : print 'Test unsuccessful';