Creating a follow a follower script using Python #2 (following)

Hi Steemians,

This follows on from part 1 [link below] where I’m attempting to create a simple script that would list my followers and if I wasn’t following then print the names to the shell and then automatically follow them.
To recap the flow I’m working to is:

1. Create a list of my follower account names
2. Create a list of account names of all the people I’m following
3. Check to see if the follower is on the following list if not:
   a. Print the account name to the shell
   b. Automatically follow the account

So far I have managed to:

• get steem installed – this took far longer than I expected (due to my incompetence)
• have successfully got to print to the shell a list of my followers

Oh and to make things even more fun I thought I would do this using a Raspberry Pi 2 as we had one sitting around not doing much!

I have split this into 3.5 parts/posts as it got a bit long for an all in one:
· part 1 getting a list of my followers,
· part 2 getting a list of who I’m following – this post
· part 2.5 not really a part just a bit of code tidying up
· part 3 comparing lists and following

Now I’m doing the same for the list of following. This is pretty much the same as the follower one so I haven’t added as much comment this time

# Import statements
from steem import Steem

# Variables and objects
steem = Steem()
account = 'garethdear'

# Function to count who I'm following
def get_my_following():
    followingCount = steem.get_follow_count(account)['following_count']
    return followingCount

# Get the number I'm following
print("getting my following count")
followingCount = get_my_following()

# Get the list of account names I'm following
print ("Getting my following")
following = []
followingStart = 0
while followingCount > 0:
    tempFollowing = steem.get_following(account, followingStart, 'blog', 100)
    if (followingCount > 100):
        followingStart = tempFollowing[99]['following']
        del tempFollowing[99]
    following.extend(tempFollowing)
    followingCount -=100

myFollowingNameList = []
for aFollower in following:
    name1 = aFollower['following']
    myFollowingNameList.append(name1)

# Print out the names
print("I am following:")
for name in myFollowingNameList:
    print(name)  

Hooray! – Stage 2 complete now onto stage 3 (via 2.5)
I’ll post this in a day or so

Please bear in mind that I am still a newbie to python and there will be many other (and much more elegant) ways of coding this.

Have fun and bye for now
Gareth

Part 1 - https://steemit.com/steem/@garethdear/creating-a-follow-a-follower-script-using-python-1-followers