From: Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:09:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: read student information using DictReader
X-Git-Url: https://code.communitydata.science/coldcallbot-discord.git/commitdiff_plain/f46f00dc4d9b4d592801971c1d35471251c29216?ds=inline;hp=-c

read student information using DictReader

This should be safer.
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f46f00dc4d9b4d592801971c1d35471251c29216
diff --git a/coldcall.py b/coldcall.py
index 8cae6ca..2b5b5d8 100644
--- a/coldcall.py
+++ b/coldcall.py
@@ -38,12 +38,8 @@ class ColdCall():
 
         preferred_names = {}
         with open(self.__fn_studentinfo, 'r') as f:
-            for line in f.readlines():
-                x = line.strip().split("\t")
-                if x[0] == "Timestamp":
-                    continue
-
-                preferred_names[x[4]] = x[2]
+            for row in DictReader(f, delimiter="\t"):
+                preferred_names[row["Your username on the class Discord server"]] = row["Name you'd like to go by in class"]
 
         if selected_student in preferred_names:
             return preferred_names[selected_student]
@@ -103,12 +99,12 @@ class ColdCall():
         return coldcall_message
 
 # cc = ColdCall()
+ 
+# test_student_list = ["jordan", "Kristen Larrick", "Madison Heisterman", "Maria.Au20", "Laura (Alia) Levi", "Leona Aklipi", "Linya Feng", "anne", "kirst", "emmaaitelli", "ashleylee", "allie_partridge", "Tiana_Cole", "Hamin", "Ella Qu", "Angel Su", "Shizuka", "Ben Baird", "Kim Do", "Isaacm24", "Sam Bell", "Courtneylg", "TasnimHasan"]
+# print(cc.coldcall(test_student_list))
 
-# test_student_list = ["Jordan", "Kristen Larrick", "Madison Heisterman", "Maria.Au20", "Laura (Alia) Levi", "Leona Aklipi", "Linya Feng", "anne", "kirst", "emmaaitelli", "ashleylee", "allie_partridge", "Tiana_Cole", "Hamin", "Ella Qu", "Angel Su", "Shizuka", "Ben Baird", "Kim Do", "Isaacm24", "Sam Bell", "Courtneylg", "TasnimHasan"]
-# cc.coldcall(test_student_list)
-
-# test_student_list = ["Jordan", "Kristen Larrick", "Mako"]
-# cc.coldcall(test_student_list)
+# test_student_list = ["jordan", "Kristen Larrick", "Mako"]
+# print(cc.coldcall(test_student_list))
 
-# test_student_list = ["Jordan", "Kristen Larrick"]
-# cc.coldcall(test_student_list)
+# test_student_list = ["jordan", "Kristen Larrick"]
+# print(cc.coldcall(test_student_list))