reddit_code.py

from reddit import *
import json

# Load the data:
posts = False
with open("data.json") as file:
    posts = json.load(file)

# Out JSON variable:
outJson = []

# Iterate and claculate the hot score:
for children in posts:
    for post in children:
        downs = post["data"]["downs"]
        ups = post["data"]["ups"]
        title = post["data"]["title"]
        created = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(post["data"]["created"]))
        hotScore = hot(ups, downs, created)
        out = {}
        out["title"] = title
        out["hotScore"] = hotScore
        outJson.append(out)

# Sort based on hotScore
def sortScore(json):
    try:
        return int(json['hotScore'])
    except KeyError:
        return 0
outJson.sort(key=sortScore, reverse=True)

# Print JSON of top 25 posts:
print json.dumps(outJson[0:25])