Crashing issues with latest versions of praw about altcointip HOT 4 CLOSED

@blixnood having same issue, but crash is different:

dude@ubuntu:~/reddittipbot/src# ./_start.sh
INFO:cointipbot:CointipBot::init_logging(): -------------------- logging initialized --------------------
DEBUG:cointipbot:CointipBot::connect_db(): connecting to database...
INFO:cointipbot:CointipBot::connect_db(): connected to database xxx
DEBUG:cointipbot:CtbCoin::init(): connecting to DogecoinDark...
DEBUG:bitcoin:Read 8 parameters from ~/.DogeCoinDark/DogeCoinDark.conf
DEBUG:bitcoin:Making HTTP connection to 127.0.0.1:8332
INFO:cointipbot:CtbCoin::init():: connected to DogecoinDark
INFO:cointipbot:Setting tx fee of 1.000000
DEBUG:bitcoin:Starting "settxfee" JSON-RPC request
DEBUG:bitcoin:Got 36 byte response from server in 4 ms
DEBUG:cointipbot:CtbExchange::init(): initialized exchange pubapi.cryptsy.com
DEBUG:cointipbot:CointipBot::connect_reddit(): connecting to Reddit...
Version 2.1.19 of praw is outdated. Version 3.2.1 was released Wednesday August 19, 2015.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "cointipbot.py", line 521, in init
self.reddit = self.connect_reddit()
File "cointipbot.py", line 125, in connect_reddit
conn.login(self.conf.reddit.auth.user, self.conf.reddit.auth.password)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/init.py", line 1266, in login
self.user = self.get_redditor(user)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/init.py", line 890, in get_redditor
return objects.Redditor(self, user_name, _args, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/objects.py", line 663, in init
fetch, info_url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/objects.py", line 72, in init
self.has_fetched = self._populate(json_dict, fetch)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/objects.py", line 127, in _populate
json_dict = self._get_json_dict() if fetch else {}
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/objects.py", line 120, in _get_json_dict
as_objects=False)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/decorators.py", line 161, in wrapped
return_value = function(reddit_session, _args, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/init.py", line 526, in request_json
data = json.loads(response, object_hook=hook)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

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was working fine until a week or two ago.. just noticed this earlier today..

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FYI We are seeing the same thing...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bot.py", line 63, in
x = RedditBot()
File "bot.py", line 36, in init
self.check_loop()
File "bot.py", line 42, in check_loop
for comment in self.r.get_comments('maddenultimateteam', limit=50):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/init.py", line 549, in get_content
page_data = self.request_json(url, params=params)
File "", line 2, in request_json
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/decorators.py", line 113, in raise_api_exceptions
return_value = function(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/init.py", line 604, in request_json
retry_on_error=retry_on_error)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/init.py", line 437, in _request
_raise_response_exceptions(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/praw/internal.py", line 207, in _raise_response_exceptions
raise HTTPException(_raw=exc.response)

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Merge #45 should address this.

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