def compactness(self):
		# TODO: compute the percentage of filler words to total words
		# lower percentage is more compact
		# students to fill this in; not provided
		fillerwords = ['for', 'is', 'at', 'my', 'I', 'in', 'on', 'and', 'of', 'the', 'a', 'or', 'but', 'and', 'um']
		for x in
		this part/len(self.genTokens(t))
		return

from string import maketrans
def stripPunctuation(s):
	transtab = maketrans('@#.!=/[];:"&*,?()-','                  ')
	return s.translate(transtab)
 
class Tweet:
	""" A class that keeps track of a single tweet. Instance variables for:
	--text: (string) text of the tweet
	--url: (string) url for accessing the tweet
	--author: (string) author's name
	--tokens: (list) list of tokens generated by splitting text"""
 
	def genTokens(self):
		""" This method accesses the text instance variable, strips punctuation, 
	converts to lower case, and splits the string. 
	Returns a list of words/tokens """
		return stripPunctuation(self.text.lower()).split()
 
	def __str__(self):
		"""Useful for debugging. Let's you see what's in the Tweet object
	with a print statement: print <obj>"""
		s = ''
		s += 'self.text: ' + self.text + '\n'
		s += 'self.url: ' + self.url + '\n'
		s += 'self.author: ' + self.author + '\n'
		s += 'self.tokens: ' + str(self.tokens)
		return s
 
	def __init__(self,text,url,author):
		""" TODO:
	Constructor for the class. Sets the instance variables from passed in
	parameters, then calls genTokens to set the tokens instance variable. """
		self.text = text
		self.url = url
		self.author = author
		self.tokens = self.genTokens()
		return
 
	def len(self):
		return len(self.text)
 
	def compactness(self):
		# TODO: compute the percentage of filler words to total words
		# lower percentage is more compact
		# students to fill this in; not provided
		fillerwords = ['for', 'is', 'at', 'my', 'I', 'in', 'on', 'and', 'of', 'the', 'a', 'or', 'but', 'and', 'um']
		for x in
		/len(self.genTokens(t))
		return
 
	def printHowCompact(self):
		"""TODO: Pretty prints the compactness and the text of a Tweet"""
		# uncomment the line below and replace 0 and "empty" with appropriate values
		print "%.2f%% filler words in text: %s" % (20.0 , t)
		return
 
def main():
	# The lines below will let you test whether you've implemented the constructor and the compactness() method correctly 
	t = Tweet("Hi to all in #si182","http://www.si.umich.edu","tester")
	print t
	print t.len()
	print t.compactness()
 
	fname = raw_input("Please enter a file name: ")
	f = open(fname,"r")
	s = f.read()
 
	#1 create tweets from reading the file
		# a: Provided. Use BeautifulStoneSoup to extract the text, url, and author
		#    from each.
		# b: TODO: call the Tweet class constructor to generate a new Tweet object
		# c: TODO: append the resulting tweet to your list of tweets
 
	from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
	soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(s,selfClosingTags=["link"])
	tweets = []
	for entry in soup.findAll("entry"):
		# we need to typecast because beautifulsoup
		# will return unicode objects
		text = str(entry.find('title').contents[0])
		author = str(entry.find('name').contents[0])
		url = str(entry.find('link')['href'])
		#b and c
		x = Tweet(self,text,url,author)
		tweets.append(x)
 
	#2 print the tweets 
	print tweets
	print len(tweets), "tweets total"
	# TODO: invoke the printHowCompact method on each tweet
 	for tweet in tweets:
 		print printHowCompact()
main()