def get_authors_timeline(author: str, topics: List[str]) -> AuthorTimeline:
reddit = Reddit(config.data_location)
posts: Dict[str, TimelinePost] = {}
for topic in topics:
df = TopicsDFCache.load(topic)
filtered_df = df[(df.Author == author)]
for _, row in filtered_df.iterrows():
post_id = row['SeqId']
sentence_number = row['InstNo']
text = row['Text']
sent = TimelineSentence(sentence_number, text, topic)
if post_id not in posts:
create_time = reddit.get_post(post_id)['created_utc']
posts[post_id] = TimelinePost(post_id, create_time)
posts[post_id].sentences = list(
sorted(posts[post_id].sentences + [sent],
key=lambda x: x.number))
sorted_posts = list(sorted(posts.values(), key=lambda x: x.timestamp))
# selected_posts = list()
#
# year_dict = {2012:0,2013:0,2014:0,2015:0,2016:0,2017:0,2018:0}
# month_dict = {1:0,2:0,3:0,4:0,5:0,6:0,7:0,8:0,9:0,10:0,11:0,12:0}
#
# for item in sorted_posts:
# if date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).year in year_dict.keys():
# year_dict[date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).year] += 1
# year = max(year_dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))[0]
# for item in sorted_posts:
# if date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).year == year:
# if date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).month in month_dict.keys():
# month_dict[date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).month] += 1
# month = max(month_dict.items(),key=operator.itemgetter(1))[0]
#
# for item in sorted_posts:
# if date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).year==year and date.fromtimestamp(item.timestamp).month==month
# selected_posts.append(item.sentences)
# print(f'{author} most frequent year {year} and month {month}')
return AuthorTimeline(author, sorted_posts)
