Displays the current hot posts on /r/ShowerThoughts via tkinter

shower_thoughts_tk.py

import praw
import Tkinter as tk

class ShowerThoughtsDisplay(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        # set it to full screen, works on linux but not on OS X, untested on Windows
        self.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
        # sets it to full screen (but windowed) on OS X
        self.geometry("{0}x{1}+0+0".format(self.winfo_screenwidth(), self.winfo_screenheight()))

        self.v = tk.StringVar()
        tk.Label(self, textvariable=self.v, wraplength=500, font=('Arial', 24)).pack()

        self.r = praw.Reddit('shower-thoughts-display')
        self.sub = self.r.get_subreddit('showerthoughts')

    def getPosts(self):
        submissions = self.sub.get_hot()
        for subm in submissions:
            s = '"{}"\nby: {}'.format(str(subm.title.encode('utf-8')), 
                                      str(subm.author).encode('utf-8'))
            self.v.set(s)
            self.update()
            self.after(30000, None)
        
        self.after(10, self.getPosts)

def main():
    app = ShowerThoughtsDisplay()
    app.after(0, app.getPosts)
    app.mainloop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()