adds comments. changes logfile format to .log

collect.py

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ Created on Thu Jun  8 01:08:21 2023
 # https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html
 
 Following files are necessary:
-    config.py
-        Used to configure everything that's needed for this script.
     funs/TimeSlice.py
         Function get_Tslices slices the defined timespan in config.py into N 
         slices. Is necessary due to possible blocking of requests by twitter. 
@@ -17,6 +15,8 @@ Following files are necessary:
         Function deDupe reads each line of inFile and removes duplicate lines.
         A file outFile is saved without the duplicate lines. Generates 
         "keywords.txt".
+    funs/Scrape.py
+        scrapes using snscrape.modules.twitter. See docstring.
     data/keywords-raw.txt
         Contains all keywords that are used to detect whether a tweet contains
         information about Covid19.
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ from funs.Scrape import scrapeTweets
 # Create logfile & log all outputs
 #   there are three logfile types to be found in /log.
 #   should be self explanatory.
-logfilen = logfile + datetime.now().strftime(fTimeFormat) + ".txt"
-logfileErrors = logfile + datetime.now().strftime(fTimeFormat) + "_err" + ".txt"
+logfilen = logfile + datetime.now().strftime(fTimeFormat) + ".log"
+logfileErrors = logfile + datetime.now().strftime(fTimeFormat) + "_err" + ".log"
 sys.stderr = open(logfileErrors, "w")
 sys.stdout = open(logfilen, "w")
 
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ for handle in accounts:
         suffix = tslice['suffix']
         AllFilesList.append(f"Tweets-{handle}{suffix}.csv") 
 # report missing files to "log_*_missing.txt"
-with open(f"{logfile}"+timeStartScrape.strftime(fTimeFormat)+"_missing.txt", "w") as fout:
+with open(f"{logfile}"+timeStartScrape.strftime(fTimeFormat)+"_missing.log", "w") as fout:
     for file in AllFilesList:
         if file not in tweetfiles:
             fout.write(f'Missing: {file}.\n') # if file is not in tweetfiles, print error message.