On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 09:34 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: > For several years I have been using a simple script to find the top 20 > posters to the tutor list by web-scraping the archive pages. I thought > others might be interested so here is the list for 2008 and the script > that generates it. The lists for previous years (back to 2003) are at > the end so everyone on the list doesn't hit the archives to find out > :-) > > The script gives a simple example of datetime, urllib2 and > BeautifulSoup. It consolidates names that vary by case but other > variations are not detected.
Kent, Thank you for this. I've been thinking about a web scraping script but didn't have a clue how to go about it. Seeing someone else's practical implementation is a huge help! A little serendipity to start 2009 off with. Happy New Year to all. John _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
