Python Reddit API Comment Loop Test

comment_loop_test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import logging
import sys
import time

import praw


def configure_logging():
    logger = logging.getLogger("praw")
    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())


def main():
    configure_logging()

    reddit = praw.Reddit("SITENAME", user_agent="PRAW loop test")
    reddit.config.ratelimit_seconds = 0xFFFF

    last = time.time()
    subreddit = reddit.subreddit("test")
    for i, submission in enumerate(subreddit.new()):
        submission.reply(f"Test comment: {i}")
        now = time.time()
        print(f"{now - last:.2f} {i:2d} {submission.title}")
        last = now


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())

Thanks everyone for the updates. I updated the gist to work with Python 3.6+ and PRAW 7.0+ where PRAW has built-in support for retries based upon the configuration value ratelimit_seconds.

https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/configuration/options.html#miscellaneous-configuration-options