Conditional Statement—Responding to append_entries Requests

server.py

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        if string_operation.split(" ")[0] == "append_entries":
            # followers do this to update their logs.
            stringified_logs_to_append = string_operation.replace("append_entries ", "")
            print("Preparing to append: " + stringified_logs_to_append)
            logs_to_append = ast.literal_eval(stringified_logs_to_append)
            [key_value_store.write_to_log(log, term_absent=True) for log in logs_to_append]
            print("State machine after appending: " + str(key_value_store.data))

            response = "Append entries call successful!"