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RE: Upvote bot in less than 10 lines of code
Hey @xeroc, love your stuff but I found a small bug with this logic:
if c["author"] in authors:
This will be true for substring matches in authors.
So if authors
contains a name such as "longtestname"
and c["author"]
contains a name such as "name" or "test"
It will evaluate as true
(Python is still new for me)
Thanks for taking a closer look, but since this expression
evaluates to
False
in python, I'd say that python interprets all elements ofauthors
independently and in full. That's becauseauthors
is an array or list.If it was just a single author then you would be right since
evaluates to
True
Agreed?
Just tested this more and found out what the error was:
If you include the single quotes around the array, both statements return True
But if you remove the single quotes around the array, it functions as intended:
Hope this helps!
In the first case, the
stringList
is actually a simple string and is not interpreted as an array. that's why the test returns true in both cases.