Fix README

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-#Description
+# Description
+
 There are two parts to bitter.
 First of all, it is a wrapper over Python twitter that adds support for several Twitter API credentials (e.g. authorizing the same app with different user accounts).
 Secondly, it is a command line tool to automate several actions (e.g. downloading user networks) using the wrapper.

bitter/cli.py

@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ def stream(ctx):
 @stream.command('get')
 @click.option('-l', '--locations', default=None)
 @click.option('-t', '--track', default=None)
-@click.option('-f', '--file', help='File to store the stream of tweets')
+@click.option('-f', '--file', default=None, help='File to store the stream of tweets')
 @click.option('-p', '--politelyretry', help='Politely retry after a hangup/connection error', is_flag=True, default=True)
 @click.pass_context 
 def get_stream(ctx, locations, track, file, politelyretry):
@@ -416,10 +416,14 @@ def get_stream(ctx, locations, track, file, politelyretry):
                 iterator = wq.statuses.sample()
             else:
                 iterator = wq.statuses.filter(**query_args)#"-4.25,40.16,-3.40,40.75")
-            for i in iterator:
-                yield i
-            if not politelyretry:
-                return
+            try:
+              for i in iterator:
+                  yield i
+              if not politelyretry:
+                  return
+            except Exception:
+                if not politelyretry:
+                    raise ex
             thishangup = time.time()
             if thishangup - lasthangup < 60:
                 raise Exception('Too many hangups in a row.')

bitter/utils.py

@@ -155,17 +155,24 @@ def get_hashtags(iter_tweets, best=None):
 
 
 def read_file(filename, tail=False):
-    with open(filename) as f:
-        while True:
-            line = f.readline()
-            if line not in (None, '', '\n'):
-                tweet = json.loads(line.strip())
-                yield tweet
-            else:
-                if tail:
-                    time.sleep(1)
-                else:
-                    return
+    if filename == '-':
+        f = sys.stdin
+    else:
+        f = open(filename)
+    try:
+      while True:
+          line = f.readline()
+          if line not in (None, '', '\n'):
+              tweet = json.loads(line.strip())
+              yield tweet
+          else:
+              if tail:
+                  time.sleep(1)
+              else:
+                  return
+    finally:
+        if f != sys.stdin:
+          close(f)
 
 
 def get_users(wq, ulist, by_name=False, queue=None, max_users=100):