A terribly inefficient script to determine the depth of a comment in a Reddit thread

reddit-comment-depth.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
reddit-comment-depth.py

Created by peterjmag on 2011-12-30.
"""

import urllib2
import simplejson as json
import time


def get_comment(url):
    api_url = url + '.json'
    raw = urllib2.urlopen(api_url).read()
    json_object = json.loads(raw)
    comment = json_object[1]['data']['children'][0]['data']
    return comment

def main():
    url = raw_input('Comment Permalink URL: ')

    if url[-1] is '/':
        url = url[:-1]

    base_url = url.replace(url.split('/')[-1], '')

    comment = get_comment(url)
    print comment['id'], ':', comment['body']

    d = 1

    while 't1_' in comment['parent_id']:
        parent_url = base_url + comment['parent_id'].replace('t1_', '')
        time.sleep(2)  # Ghetto rate throttle per Reddit's API rules
        comment = get_comment(parent_url)
        print comment['id'], ':', comment['body']
        d += 1

    if d is 1:
        print d, 'comment deep'
    else:
        print d, 'comments deep'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()