Don't run the follower compare on every twitch message.

[kbigliar]

TwitchBot/bot.py

Lines 497 to 574 in 2a86f6d

	# Get new follower list and format it to compare with unfollowers
	followers()
	test = []
	for i in range(len(followerList)):
	test.insert(0, followerList[i]['from_name'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
	test = map(str.strip, test)
	# Get existing follower list
	if not os.path.exists('followerData.csv'):
	open('followerData.csv', "w+").close()
	csvfile = open('followerData.csv', "rb")
	followerDataReader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=",")
	followerLines = list(followerDataReader)
	csvfile.close()
	# Compare follower lists
	newFollowers = [item for item in test if item not in [i[0] for i in followerLines[1:]]]
	unfollowers = [item for item in [i[0] for i in followerLines[1:]] if item not in test]
	# thank new follower and add to existing list
	if len(newFollowers) > 0:
	if len(followerLines) == 0:
	followerLines.append(
	["Username", "FollowLength", "IsFollower", "BatName", "BatGender", "BatColor",
	"IsSubscriber"])
	followerLines.append(
	[Channel[1:], "0", "1", "", "", "", ""])
	for i in range(len(newFollowers)):
	followerLines.append([newFollowers[i], "", "", "", "", "", ""])
	csvfile = open('followerDataNew.csv', "wb")
	followerDataWriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=",")
	followerDataWriter.writerows(followerLines)
	csvfile.close()
	os.remove('followerData.csv')
	os.rename('followerDataNew.csv', 'followerData.csv')
	if len(newFollowers) == 1:
	message("Thank you for following the channel " + " ".join(
	newFollowers) + "! Type !bat to see your the information on your :bat:")
	if len(newFollowers) > 1:
	message("Thank you for following the channel " + ", ".join(newFollowers[0:-1]) + " and " +
	newFollowers[-1] + "! Type !bat to see the information on your :bat:")
	# If someone is a follower set isFollower to 1
	for i1 in range(len(followerList)):
	for i2 in range(len(followerLines)):
	if followerList[i1]['from_name'].encode('ascii', 'ignore').lower().rstrip() == \
	followerLines[i2][0].lower().rstrip():
	followerLines[i2][2] = "1"
	# If someone unfollows set isFollower to 0
	for i1 in range(len(unfollowers)):
	for i2 in range(len(followerLines)):
	if not followerLines[i2][0].lower().rstrip() == Channel[1:].lower().rstrip():
	if followerLines[i2][0] == unfollowers[i1]:
	followerLines[i2][2] = "0"
	# Assign gender
	for i in range(len(followerLines)):
	if followerLines[i][4] == "":
	maleFemale = random.randint(0, 1)
	if maleFemale == 1:
	followerLines[i][4] = 'female'
	else:
	followerLines[i][4] = 'male'
	# Assign Name
	for i in range(len(followerLines)):
	try:
	if followerLines[i][3] == "":
	if followerLines[i][4].lower() == 'male':
	randomNumber = random.randint(0, len(batMaleNames))
	maleName = batMaleNames[randomNumber]
	followerLines[i][3] = maleName
	if followerLines[i][4].lower() == 'female':
	randomNumber = random.randint(0, len(batFemaleNames))
	femaleName = batFemaleNames[randomNumber]
	followerLines[i][3] = femaleName
	except IndexError:
	print 'Skipped adding gender. Will add next time this loops'
	pass

You can call it about every 10 seconds in your while TRUE loop if you want instead of on every message (seen in #8 ) to constantly cycle the list without tying into chat messages.