PRAW Reddit bot to correct wrong counting comments from r/oneupmanship

upmanshipCorrector.py

# Heliodex 2022/05/13
# Last edited 2022/09/29 -- Update the latest comment thread automatically every 100 upmanships
# In response to repeated requests to create a bot that corrects peoples' upmanships

import praw
import praw.models.reddit.comment

completedComments = open("ids.txt", "r+")
lines = completedComments.read().split()
specialChars = ["#", "`", "*", "_", "~", "^",
                "(", ")", "/", "\\", "!", "<", ">", "[", "]", ":", "-", ".", "|", "\n"]

reddit = praw.Reddit(username="UpmanshipCorrector", password="hunter2",
                     client_id="*", client_secret="*", user_agent="*")

newestUpmanship = reddit.submission("qpnytd")
sub = reddit.subreddit("oneupmanship")

while True:
    try:
        for comment in sub.stream.comments():
            if comment.submission == reddit.submission("sab2o6") and comment.id not in lines:
                completedComments.write("\n" + comment.id)
                lines.append(comment.id)

                parent = comment.parent()
                gparent = parent.parent()

                if type(parent) != praw.models.reddit.comment.Comment or type(gparent) != praw.models.reddit.comment.Comment:
                    continue

                cleanedComment = comment.body.split()[0]
                cleanedAncestor = parent.body.split()[0]
                cleanedAncestor2 = gparent.body.split()[0]

                for i in specialChars:
                    cleanedComment = cleanedComment.replace(i, "")
                    cleanedAncestor = cleanedAncestor.replace(i, "")
                    cleanedAncestor2 = cleanedAncestor2.replace(i, "")

                print(f"{cleanedComment},  {cleanedAncestor}, {cleanedAncestor2}")

                if cleanedComment.isdigit() and cleanedAncestor.isdigit() and cleanedAncestor2.isdigit() and int(cleanedComment) - 1 != int(cleanedAncestor) and int(cleanedAncestor) - 1 == int(cleanedAncestor2):
                    print("Correcting...")
                    comment.reply(body=(
                        f"Check your upmanship ({cleanedComment}). Should it be {str(int(cleanedAncestor) + 1)} upmanship?"))
                elif cleanedComment.endswith("00"):
                    print("Updating...")
                    newestUpmanship.reply(body=(
                        f"{cleanedComment}\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/oneupmanship/comments/sab2o6/original_oneupmanship_post_was_archived_today/{comment.id}/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oneupmanship/comments/sab2o6/original_oneupmanship_post_was_archived_today/{comment.id}/)"))

    except Exception as e:
        print(e)