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by jmau5 • 15 years ago

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jmau59• 15 years ago

Please feel free to leave me some harsh feedback!

jaspersfather• 15 years ago

Instead of

    if bla in [bla, blubb, bfoo]:
      return True
    return False

you can write:

    return bla in [bla, blubb, foo]

jmau59• 15 years ago

Done! Thanks :)

kracekumar2• 15 years ago

use argparse .

jmau59• 15 years ago

I'm reading through a bit of the Python docs right now, but after I finish I'll check out argparse.

Much appreciated. :)

zalew2• 15 years ago

why assume someone uses sudo and is in sudoers, or that sudo is even present?

also 'install feedparser' could be easily replaced by specifying a requirement for pip, or even runnning 'pip install feedparser' from the function if you really want to do it this way.

better package it properly, write a setup like this http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html and save a .sh wrapper script in /usr/local/bin, this way you can update the package without messing with setup.py every time.

some cosmetic/pythonic:

    if feedparser.parse(subreddit_url).has_key("bozo_exception"):
        return False
    return True

    return not feedparser.parse(subreddit_url).has_key("bozo_exception")


    for post in rss["items"]:
        print "%s%s\n%s%s\n%s" % (COLOR_RED, post["title"], COLOR_CYAN, post["link"], COLOR_OFF)

    print ["%s%s\n%s%s\n%s" % (COLOR_RED, post["title"], COLOR_CYAN, post["link"], COLOR_OFF) for post in rss['items']]

;)

jmau59• 15 years ago

I've included the cosmetic/pythonic changes and I'm going to take some time to read through the link you left me.

Do you have any recommendations for what I should use other than sudo? This was meant to work under Ubuntu (my OS), but I'd like to extend it so that it will work on any platform.

Thanks :)

brcrth2• 15 years ago

Why usr/bin instead of usr/local/bin?

jmau59• 15 years ago

What's the difference here? I would think /usr/bin would have the advantage of being available system-wide rather than on just one account, but I'm not terribly unix-smart.

Enlighten me?

brcrth2• 15 years ago

Take a look at this article: http://hivelogic.com/articles/using_usr_local/

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