pystackexchange polling issue

So, I'm fairly new to python and I had an idea today to make a script that polls stackoverflow for my rep, and when it changes, it sends an email, which gets sent to my phone as a text.

The emailing part works, but for some reason I can't get the polling right, so I decided I'd see if maybe you guys wanted to take a stab at it.

Here's my code:

import sys
from stackauth import StackAuth
from stackexchange import Site, StackOverflow
import smtplib

from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText 开发者_Go百科import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os

import time

gmail_user = "email@gmail.com"
gmail_pwd = "password"

def mail(to, subject, text):
   msg = MIMEMultipart()

   msg['From'] = gmail_user
   msg['To'] = to
   msg['Subject'] = subject

   msg.attach(MIMEText(text))

   mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
   mailServer.ehlo()
   mailServer.starttls()
   mailServer.ehlo()
   mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
   mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
   # Should be mailServer.quit(), but that crashes...
   mailServer.close()

old_rep = None

while True:

    user_id = 731221 if len(sys.argv) < 2 else int(sys.argv[1])
    print 'StackOverflow user %d\'s accounts:' % user_id

    stack_auth = StackAuth()
    so = Site(StackOverflow)
        accounts = stack_auth.associated(so, user_id)
    REP =  accounts[3].reputation
    print REP
        if REP != old_rep:
        old_rep = REP
                mail("email@email.com","REP",str(REP))
    time.sleep(10)

Currently if you print REP it is right at first, but doesnt update if my rep changes. Ideally it would. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

This is a simplified example that will loop properly:

import time
from stackauth import StackAuth
from stackexchange import Site, StackOverflow

rep = None
while True:
    stack_auth = StackAuth()
    so = Site(StackOverflow)
    accounts = stack_auth.associated(so, 641766) # using my id
    so_acct = filter(lambda x: x.on_site.api_endpoint.endswith('api.stackoverflow.com'), accounts)[0] # filtering my accounts so I only check rep on stackoverflow
    if rep != so_acct.reputation:
        rep = so_acct.reputation
        print rep
        # send e-mail
    time.sleep(30)

I added a line to filter the accounts so it will only check your rep on the proper site. You were using the index, I have no idea if that's stable or not, I'd guess not. Polling every 10 seconds (like in the original example) might be a bit much, maybe do something more reasonable like every 5 minutes? Do you really need an up to the minute update of your rep? Consider just writing this as a cron job and having it run every 5, 10, 15 minutes whatever.