# TODO: Clean this up and write comments.
def convert_tweets(tweets):

    recent_tweets = tweets

    outtweets  = []

    for tweet in recent_tweets:

        try:
            outtweets.insert(0, {
                'id':str(tweet.id_str),
                'date':str(tweet.created_at),
                'retweet':('RT @' in tweet.text),
                'text':str(tweet.text.encode('utf-8'))[1:],
                'hashtags':tweet.entities.get('hashtags'),
                'mentions':tweet.entities.get('user_metions')
            })
        
        except:
            try:
                outtweets.insert(0, {
                    'id':str(tweet.id_str),
                    'date':str(tweet.created_at),
                    'retweet':('RT @' in tweet.full_text),
                    'text':str(tweet.full_text.encode('utf-8'))[1:],
                    'hashtags':tweet.entities.get('hashtags'),
                    'mentions':tweet.entities.get('user_metions')
                })

            except:
                outtweets.insert(0, {
                    'id':str(tweet.id_str),
                    'date':str(tweet.created_at),
                    'retweet':True,
                    'text':str(tweet.retweeted_status.text.encode("utf-8"))[1:],
                    'hashtags':tweet.entities.get('hashtags'),
                    'mentions':tweet.entities.get('user_metions')
                })

    return outtweets