Overcomplicating things?

[kbigliar]

TwitchBot/bot.py

Lines 207 to 227 in 28e2a8d

	# Get current Day Month Year
	currentDate = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
	m = re.search('(.+?)-', currentDate)
	currentYear = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	m = re.search('-(.+?)-', currentDate)
	currentMonth = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	m = re.search('-(.*)', currentDate)
	currentDay = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	m = re.search('-(.*)', currentDay)
	currentDay = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	# Get current Hour Minute Second
	currentTime = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%H:%M:%S")
	m = re.search('(.+?):', currentTime)
	currentHour = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	m = re.search(':(.+?):', currentTime)
	currentMinute = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	m = re.search(':(.*)', currentTime)
	currentSecond = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
	m = re.search(':(.*)', currentSecond)
	currentSecond = m.group(1).encode('ascii', 'ignore')

and

TwitchBot/bot.py

Lines 234 to 237 in 28e2a8d

	currentDate = datetime.date(int(currentYear), int(currentMonth), int(currentDay))
	currentDateTime = datetime.datetime.combine(currentDate,
	datetime.time(int(currentHour), int(currentMinute), int(currentDay),
	0, tzinfo=None))

Why not use currentDateTime = datetime.datetime.now() ?

[kbigliar]

Better yet, declare currentDateTime outside the for loop on line 182.

[kbigliar]

Timing code seen here: https://repl.it/repls/BetterWideCopyright
Destructing and rebuilding a datetime runs on average about 4 times as slow as just using a datetime.datetime.now().
Additionally, as you don't care for the microsecond differences in the time, building the datetime for each follower currently increases the overhead about a thousandfold and linearly takes longer the more followers you get.