Re: [Python-Dev] Accessing mailing list archives

2018-07-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Jul2018 13:40, Bob Purvy wrote: I've been trying to figure out how to access the archives programmatically. I'm sure this is easy once you know, but googling various things hasn't worked. What I want to do is graph the number of messages about PEP 572 by time. (or has someone already done

Re: [Python-Dev] Accessing mailing list archives

2018-07-31 Thread Victor Stinner
Feel free to modify the script to make your own statistics ;-) Victor 2018-08-01 0:57 GMT+02:00 Michael Selik : > Would it be possible to normalize by the number of mailing list members and > also by "active" members? The latter would be tricky to define. > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 3:29 PM Victo

Re: [Python-Dev] Accessing mailing list archives

2018-07-31 Thread Michael Selik
Would it be possible to normalize by the number of mailing list members and also by "active" members? The latter would be tricky to define. On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 3:29 PM Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I wrote a basic script to compute the number of emails per PEP. It > requires to downloa

Re: [Python-Dev] Accessing mailing list archives

2018-07-30 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi Bob, I wrote a basic script to compute the number of emails per PEP. It requires to download gzipped mbox files from the web page of archives per month, then ungzip them: https://github.com/vstinner/misc/blob/master/python/parse_mailman_mbox_peps.py Results: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/p

[Python-Dev] Accessing mailing list archives

2018-07-30 Thread Bob Purvy
hi all, I've been trying to figure out how to access the archives programmatically. I'm sure this is easy once you know, but googling various things hasn't worked. What I want to do is graph the number of messages about PEP 572 by time. (or has someone already done that?) I installed GNU Mailma