AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'get'

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Authorize in api:
api = twitter.Api(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, 
access_token_secret)
2. Get public timeline:
statuses = api.GetPublicTimeline()

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected statuses, instead i got errror:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\workspace\twitter\tt_tmp.py", line 9, in <module>
    statuses = api.GetPublicTimeline()
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\twitter.py", line 2301, in GetPublicTimeline
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\twitter.py", line 620, in NewFromJsonDict
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'get'

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
python-twitter 0.8.2, Python 2.7 on Win7 64bit

Please provide any additional information below.
GetUserTimeline works fine.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Bartosz....@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2012 at 12:19