mellort/reddit_api — Issue #47: Subreddit Object does not check that it exists on creation.
Author: nemec
Created: 2011-12-14 21:50:14+00:00
State: open

If you call get_subreddit on a nonexistent subreddit, it creates the object regardless of whether or not the subreddit exists. To check whether a subreddit exists, you have to call an equivalent of `r.get_subreddit("_df").get_hot(limit=1).next()`.

I can go ahead and stick that sanity check in there on creation, but first I'd like to confirm whether or not the lazy-fail version is a design decision or an oversight.