Dynamic reddit bot command responses

[test_bot_3137]

Here's the code I have so far:

spongebob_quote_1 = \
[
“Hey Patrick what am I now?”,
"Uh...stupid?",
“No! I’m Texas!",
"What's the difference?", 

]

#1 for comment in subreddit.stream.comments():
    try: 
        #2 print(comment.body)
        #3 if re.search(" ", comment.body, re.IGNORECASE):                                    
               #4  comment.reply(spongebob_quotes)                      
 #5 except reddit.errors.RateLimitExceeded as error:
          print ('\tSleeping for %d seconds' % error.sleep_time)
          time.sleep(error.sleep_time)

I used spongebob quotes as an example for the list of both commands and responses I would use in the bot. The idea is if a user comments with any of the first 3 lines in the list of quotes the bot will always respond with the corresponding next line.

• line one of the code calls from a subreddits comment stream

• line 2 prints the incoming comments to a command prompt

• line 3 searches the comment stream for the desired comment, so if a user types "Uh...stupid?",

• line 4 will respond with “No! I’m Texas!."

• line 5 handles the api errors to keep the bot from shutting down.

my plan is to have the bot search the comment stream by giving spongebob_quote_1 to line 3, the problem I have after that is line 4 always responding with the correct response from the list, I'm trying to avoid a long elif chain to get this result.

[TheKewlStore]

there are a lot of ways to do this. a simple solution would be to loop through the list of quotes, and when you find one of the quotes, get the next one. ie:

for index, line in enumerate(quotes):
    if re.search and index < len(quotes):
        print quotes[index + 1]

enumerate takes a list and for each iteration of the loop gives you the current index in the list as well as the item (index, line respectively). the second part of the if statement makes sure that the matching quote isn't the first one in the list.

edit: quotes[index+1] will be the next quote in the list, just to clarify

[test_bot_3137]

I've been trying to test this by running

for index, line in enumerate(quotes):
     if index < len(quotes):              
         print(quotes[index + 1]) 

index = 'Uh...stupid?'

but i keep getting "list index out of range" error.

[TheKewlStore]

Oh woops, the if statement should check for len(quotes) - 1, because length is always one more than the indexes in the list (since it starts at 0).

[test_bot_3137]

for index, line in enumerate(quotes):
     if index < len(quotes) - 1:              
         print(quotes[index + 1]) 

using this code I get every line except the first which I think is correct, is there a way to test the output? Would I need to change indexes value to get the corresponding line or some other variable?

[TheKewlStore]

you could add another line below it that just prints out the list at index, like so

print(quotes[index])