在我的PC上正常工作的Python代码在我的Raspberry Pi上不起作用

Question

I recently bought a raspberry pi for many projects, one of which is reddit bots. I'm using PRAW to make the bot and it works perfectly on my desktop PC(Windows 8.1) but on my raspberry by (Raspbian) it doesn't seem to work. I've narrowed it down to these few lines in question.
Brief explanation of what I'm trying to do: Get the selftext of the post and split it by spaces into words then check if certain words are in the post.

text = submission.selftext.replace(","," ").encode("utf-8").lower().split()
for i in range (0, len(players)):
    player = players[i].lower()
    if player in text:
        print(player)

On my PC this works fine but on the Pi the if statement was never triggered even though I'm using the EXACT SAME POST for each of these tests.

If you are not familiar with PRAW, I'm splitting a string and looking for words inside it, where text is the array of words to look through and players is the dictionary.

Edit: The code does not produce any errors, it just doesn't trigger the if statement like it does on my desktop.

Edit #2: Seems that it works fine with hard-coded variable text and player . I left text hard-coded to include an entry from what should be in players but it would not find it which leads me to believe the error is in how I create the list players Below is the method that I use to create it.

def getPlayers():
    players = []
    with open("PlayerIDs.txt") as f:
        for line in f:
            players.append(line)
    return players

SOLUTION between Python 2 and 3 there were changes to how unicode and encoding in general worked and therefor the code would not run on python 2.x on my pi. I ended up installing python3 and using virtualenv to setup python 3 and it all works fine now :)

Answer 1

One possible issue is that you are running different versions of Python. Try running the following code on both the raspi and the computer:

print (sys.version)

I'll bet that one will say "2.something" and one will say "3.something". This, if it happens, means that you are using incompatible-ish versions of Python. The pi comes with python 2 (the IDE with it is IDLE by default, and IDLE 3, an IDE for Python 3 also is preloaded in rasbian. Just run the script in the IDE that matches the version on your computer.

Also, I know that it sounds simple, but the pi has often unreliable network capabilities. Are you sure that is connecting to the Internet properly?

Hope this helps!