tweepy-get users timeline status from twitter in python

import urllib, json
import sys
import tweepy
from tweepy import OAuthHandler

def twitter_fetch(screen_name = "BBCNews",maxnumtweets=10):
    'Fetch tweets from @BBCNews'
    # API described at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline

    consumer_token = '' #substitute values from twitter website
    consumer_secret = ''
    access_token = ''
    access_secret = ''
   
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_token,consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token,access_secret)
   
    api  = tweepy.API(auth)
    #print api.me().name
    #api.update_status('Hello -tweepy + oauth!')

    for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline,id=screen_name).items(2):
        print status.text+'\n'

  

if __name__ == '__main__':
    twitter_fetch('BBCNews',10)


YOu can obtain these tokens by registering your app with twitter(mandatory) - Keep them private.
References:

http://pythonhosted.org/tweepy/html/api.html