AI Generated Usenet Client in Python

If you have any improvements to this or helpful ideas I would like to see the m.

https://github.com/alt-magick/Newsgroup-Client-/

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import nntplib
import sys
import termios
import tty
import re
import quopri
import base64
from email.message import EmailMessage
import os
import tempfile
import subprocess

# ================= USER CONFIG ===
==============
NNTP_SERVER = "usnews.blocknews.net"
NNTP_PORT = 563
USERNAME = ""
PASSWORD = ""
PAGE_LINES = 12
MAX_ARTICLES_LIST = 200
MAX_REPLY_SCAN = 300
START_GROUP = "alt.test"
SHOW_REPLY_COUNT = False
SHOW_REPLY_COUNT_MAIN = True
# =========================
=====================

RE_REPLY = re.compile(r"^(re|fwd):", re.IGNORECASE)
CLEAN_RE = re.compile(r"[---]")

# ---------- STATUS LINE ----------
STATUS_LINE = ""

def set_status(msg):
global STATUS_LINE
STATUS_LINE = msg

def show_status():
global STATUS_LINE
if STATUS_LINE:
print(f"
[{STATUS_LINE}]")
STATUS_LINE = ""

# ---------- RAW KEY INPUT ----------
def get_key():
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
try:
tty.setraw(fd)
return sys.stdin.read(1)
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old)

def prompt(text):
sys.stdout.write(text)
sys.stdout.flush()
return sys.stdin.readline().strip()

# ---------- HARD-CODED PAGER ----------
def paged_print(lines):
i = 0
total = len(lines)
while i < total:
end = min(i + PAGE_LINES, total)
for line in lines[i:end]:
print(line)
i = end
if i >= total:
break
print("
--- ENTER = next page | SPACE = skip ---")
if get_key() == " ":
break

# ---------- BODY DECODER ----------
def decode_body_line(line_bytes):
s = line_bytes.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
s = CLEAN_RE.sub("", s)
if "=" in s:
try:
s = quopri.decodestring(s).decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
except Exception:
pass
if re.fullmatch(r"[A-Za-z0-9+/=\s]+", s) and len(s.strip()) > 20:
try:
s = base64.b64decode(s, validate=True).decode("utf-8", errors ="replace")
except Exception:
pass
return s

# ---------- POST BODY EDITOR ----------
def edit_body(initial=""):
editor = os.environ.get("EDITOR", "nano")
fd, path = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".txt")
try:
with os.fdopen(fd, "w") as f:
f.write(initial)
subprocess.call([editor, path])
with open(path, "r") as f:
return f.read()
finally:
os.unlink(path)