Yeah, I agree. Interesting script, Kent. Surprisingly short. I didn't realize I wasn't in the top 5 posters for 2008! I guess I have a new year's resolution to be more helpful. Happy New Year, everyone!
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:23 AM, jadrifter <jadrif...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
