csev/py4e

Typo in Ch. 15/twspider

zjfelling opened this issue · 2 comments

This is part of the 'Spidering Twitter using a database' section:

    "cur.execute('''INSERT INTO Twitter (name, retrieved, friends)
        VALUES ( ?, 0, 1 )''', ( friend, ) )"

"we use the SQL INSERT statement to add the friend's screen_name to the table with an indication that we have not yet retrieved the screen_name and set the friend count to zero."

The friend count is different than the retrieval indicator, and we set it to one in the code. At the very least it seems ambiguous to equate the retrieval count and friend count given there is a friends count.

csev commented

Thanks.

csev commented

It will take about an hour for the HTML and PDF copies to be updated. I have no good way to fix the already printed copies :) Thanks.