twitools/challenge.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import dbtools, setuptools

import operator, re, sys

def getTweets(mon, mode = "@", db = dbtools.dbHelper()):
 handles = dict()
 tweets = db.executeQuery("SELECT text FROM tweets WHERE SUBSTR(timestamp,0,11)>='%s-01' AND SUBSTR(timestamp,0,11)<='%s-31'" % (mon, mon))

 for tweet in tweets:
  for word in tweet[0].lower().split():
   if word[0] == mode or mode == "":
    if mode == "":
     handle = word
    else:
     handle = mode + re.split('[\\W]',word[1:])[0].lower()
    if handle != mode:
     try:
      handles[handle] += 1
     except KeyError:
      handles[handle] = 1

 return handles

if __name__ == "__main__":
 mode = "@"
 mon = "2016-07"

 if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  if len(sys.argv) > 3 or (len(sys.argv) == 3 and "-h" not in sys.argv):
   raise ValueError("Invalid arguments passed.")

  for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
   if arg == "-h":
    mode = "#"
   if arg == "-w":
    mode = ""
   else:
    mon = arg

 for handle, tweets in sorted(list(getTweets(mon,mode).items()), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True):
  print(handle + "," + str(tweets))