init on reddit.

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init on reddit.

jkbbwr opened this issue 13 years ago · comments

Jakob Bowyer commented 13 years ago

reddit_get_posts.py

Do you really need an init function that globals a variable?

In fact you use way to many global statements in there. Why?

Laszlo Szathmary · Answer 1 · Fri Aug 12 2011 06:42:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The init() function adds the '/.json' string to DEFAULT_REDDIT. This way you don't need to bother about the detail that we want to access the JSON API of reddit, this thing is somewhat hidden.

REDDIT is global in verify_arguments() because we need to add '/.json' again if the user specified a custom subreddit (instead of the default one).

Maybe WHAT_TO_GET could be eliminated in main().