If tweets starts with @, prepend a .

fawkesley · Jun 13, 2018 · 2be32bc · 2be32bc
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commit 2be32bc
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/scraper.py b/scraper.py
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ def tweet(self):
 
         self._description = self.replace(self._description)
 
+        if self._description.startswith('@'):
+            self._description = '.{}'.format(self._description)
+
         if len(self._description) <= character_budget:
             short_desc = self._description
         else:
@@ -117,8 +120,6 @@ def replace(description):
             "the ICO",
         ]
 
-        # TODO: prepend a . where the tweet starts with @ICOnews
-
         for name in ico_names:
             new = description.replace(name, '@ICOnews')
             if new != description: