AttributeError: 'NoneType' - Objekt hat kein Attribut 'strip' mit Python-WebCrawler

Ich Schreibe ein python-Programm zu durchforsten twitter mit einer Kombination von urllib2, die python twitter-wrapper für das api, und BeautifulSoup. Allerdings, wenn ich aus meinem Programm, ich bekomme eine Fehlermeldung der folgenden Art:

ray_krueger
RafaelNadal

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Columbia Job\Python Crawler\Twitter Crawler\crawlerversion9.py", line 78, in <module>
    crawl(start_follower, output, depth)
  File "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Columbia Job\Python Crawler\Twitter Crawler\crawlerversion9.py", line 74, in crawl
    crawl(y, output, in_depth - 1)
  File "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Columbia Job\Python Crawler\Twitter Crawler\crawlerversion9.py", line 74, in crawl
    crawl(y, output, in_depth - 1)
  File "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Columbia Job\Python Crawler\Twitter Crawler\crawlerversion9.py", line 64, in crawl
    request = urllib2.Request(new_url)
  File "C:\Python28\lib\urllib2.py", line 192, in __init__
    self.__original = unwrap(url)
  File "C:\Python28\lib\urllib.py", line 1038, in unwrap
    url = url.strip()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'

Ich bin völlig vertraut mit dieser Art von Fehler (neue python) und auf der Suche nach online ergab sehr wenig Informationen. Ich angehängt habe meinen code auch, aber haben Sie irgendwelche Vorschläge?

Danke
Snehizzy

import twitter
import urllib
import urllib2
import htmllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re

start_follower = "NYTimeskrugman" 
depth = 3
output = open(r'C:\Python27\outputtest.txt', 'a') #better to use SQL database thanthis

api = twitter.Api()

#want to also begin entire crawl with some sort of authentication service 

def site(follower):
    followersite = "http://mobile.twitter.com/" + follower
    return followersite

def getPage(follower): 
    thisfollowersite = site(follower)
    request = urllib2.Request(thisfollowersite)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    return response

def getSoup(response): 
    html = response.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
    return soup

def get_more_tweets(soup): 
    links = soup.findAll('a', {'href': True}, {id : 'more_link'})
    for link in links:
        b = link.renderContents()
        if str(b) == 'more':
            c = link['href']
            d = 'http://mobile.twitter.com' +c
            return d

def recordlinks(soup,output):
    tags = soup.findAll('div', {'class' : "list-tweet"})#to obtain tweet of a follower
    for tag in tags: 
        a = tag.renderContents()
        b = str (a)
        output.write(b)
        output.write('\n\n')

def checkforstamp(soup):
    times = nsoup.findAll('a', {'href': True}, {'class': 'status_link'})
    for time in times:
        stamp = time.renderContents()
        if str(stamp) == '3 months ago':
            return True

def crawl(follower, output, in_depth):
    if in_depth > 0:
        output.write(follower)
        a = getPage(follower)
        new_soup = getSoup(a)
        recordlinks(new_soup, output)
        currenttime = False 
        while currenttime == False:
            new_url = get_more_tweets(new_soup)
            request = urllib2.Request(new_url)
            response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
            new_soup = getSoup(response)
            recordlinks(new_soup, output)
            currenttime = checkforstamp(new_soup)
        users = api.GetFriends(follower)
        for u in users[0:5]:
            x = u.screen_name 
            y = str(x)
            print y
            crawl(y, output, in_depth - 1)
            output.write('\n\n')
        output.write('\n\n\n')

crawl(start_follower, output, depth)
print("Program done. Look at output file.")