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Help getting retweets with Python Twitter Tools

I'm using this library:
http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/
to access Twitter. The author states, "Its methods are directly bound to the Twitter API's URLs. For instance twitter.statuses.friends_timeline() will always hit the URL http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json. Always." If this is the case, would it even be possible to hit "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/id/retweeted_by.format" if id is a number? I don't think python allows you to do: twitter.statuses.123456.retweeted_by(). I just need a way to count the number of retweets of a specific tweet. Alternatively, does anyone know if Dewitt Clinton's python-twitter allows me to count retweets?

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