Python 3, PEP 8 compliance, general refactoring

shreddit.py

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-import praw, argparse, ConfigParser
+import praw
+from praw.errors import *
+import argparse
+from simpleconfigparser import simpleconfigparser
 from praw.objects import Comment, Submission
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from re import sub
@@ -9,13 +12,19 @@ from time import sleep
 try:
     from loremipsum import get_sentence
 except:
-    get_sentence = lambda: '''I have been Shreddited for privacy!\n\nhttps://github.com/x89/Shreddit/'''
+    def get_sentence():
+        return '''I have been Shreddited for privacy!\n\n\
+                https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/'''
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-parser.add_argument('-c', '--config', help="config file to use instead of shreddit.cfg")
+parser.add_argument(
+    '-c',
+    '--config',
+    help="config file to use instead of the default shreddit.cfg"
+)
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
-config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
+config = simpleconfigparser()
 if args.config:
     config.read(args.config)
 else:
@@ -34,29 +43,39 @@ item = config.get('main', 'item')
 _user = config.get('main', 'username')
 _pass = config.get('main', 'password')
 
-r = praw.Reddit(user_agent="Shreddit-PRAW 2.1")
+r = praw.Reddit(user_agent="Shreddit-PRAW 3")
+
 
-if _user and _pass:
+def login(user=None, password=None):
     try:
-        r.login(_user, _pass)
+        if user and password:
-    except:
-        # Try again (often get HTTP when Reddit is down for a second errors)
-        sleep(10)
             r.login(_user, _pass)
         else:
-    r.login()
+            r.login()  # Let the user supply details
+    except InvalidUserPass as e:
+        raise InvalidUserPass(e)
+    except RateLimitExceeded:
+        raise RateLimitExceeded()
+    except NonExistentUser:
+        raise NonExistentUser("User does not exist")
+
+login(user=_user, password=_pass)
 
 if verbose:
-    print "Logged in as {0}".format(r.user)
+    print("Logged in as {user}".format(user=r.user))
 
 if verbose:
-    print "Deleting messages before {0}.".format(datetime.now() - timedelta(hours=hours))
+    print("Deleting messages before {time}.".format(
+        time=datetime.now() - timedelta(hours=hours))
+    )
 
 whitelist = [y.strip().lower() for y in whitelist.split(',')]
 whitelist_ids = [y.strip().lower() for y in whitelist_ids.split(',')]
 
-if verbose:
+if verbose and whitelist:
-    print "Keeping messages from subreddits {0}".format(', '.join(whitelist))
+    print("Keeping messages from subreddits {subs}".format(
+        subs=', '.join(whitelist))
+    )
 
 things = []
 if item == "comments":
@@ -74,7 +93,6 @@ for thing in things:
     after_time = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(hours=hours)
     if thing_time > after_time:
         continue
-    
     # For edit_only we're assuming that the hours aren't altered.
     # This saves time when deleting (you don't edit already edited posts).
     if edit_only:
@@ -91,20 +109,23 @@ for thing in things:
             thing.clear_vote()
         if isinstance(thing, Submission):
             if verbose:
-                print u'Deleting submission: #{0} {1}'.format(thing.id, thing.url)
+                print(u'Deleting submission: #{id} {url}'.format(
+                    id=thing.id,
+                    url=thing.url)
+                )
         elif isinstance(thing, Comment):
             replacement_text = get_sentence()
             if verbose:
                 msg = '/r/{3}/ #{0} with:\n\t"{1}" to\n\t"{2}"'.format(
                     thing.id,
-                    sub(r'[\t\r\n]', ' ', thing.body.encode('ascii', 'ignore')[:78]),
+                    sub(r'\W', ' ', thing.body.encode('ascii', 'ignore')[:78]),
                     replacement_text[:78],
                     thing.subreddit
                 )
             if edit_only:
-                print 'Editing ' + msg
+                print('Editing {msg}'.format(msg=msg))
             else:
-                print 'Editing and deleting ' + msg
+                print('Editing and deleting {msg}'.format(msg=msg))
             thing.edit(replacement_text)
         if not edit_only:
             thing.delete()