[Tutor] suggestions to improve design

[Justin Straube]

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Hello Tutors,

I've written a script to use within XChat (IRC client) and everything is
working without issue. The script is a little tool to give an emote
command and a handful of general pre written actions.

As it is now, the script works. But I've got maybe a dozen emotes in
there, using if/elif loops to check against a list of emotes and
format a string for display in the channel.

But, I also have another dictionary containing duplicate values with
text placeholders where a %s would be substituted.

I feel that, as the list of available emotes grows, the script will
suffer from a poor design. I have thought about pickling or using a file
to store the dict or loops, but that only seems like a bandage and
there may be a performance issue with potentially hundreds of loops to
check through.

Ok, so I have posted my script at
http://www.baked-potato.us/files/2ndthat.py

My question is, would anybody please take a look and offer suggestions
on what I may do to improve this script?

Thank you,
Justin
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