Re: [Tutor] NNTP Client

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On Nov 13, 2007 4:01 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> server = NNTP('news.gmane.org') > > What's wrong with that then? server, apparently:>>> s.group("gmane.discuss") ('211 11102 10 11329 gmane.discuss', '11102', '10', '11329', 'gmane.discuss') >>> server.group("gmane.disc

Re: [Tutor] NNTP Client

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On Nov 13, 2007 2:13 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ought it to be straightforward to write a client that does this task? Well: >>> server = NNTP('news.gmane.org') >>> resp, count, first, last, name = server.group("gmane.linux.redhat.enterprise.announce") Traceback (most r

[Tutor] NNTP Client

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hello all, I wish to pull all the articles for one particular newsgroup to a local machine, on a regular basis. I don't wish to read them - I will be parsing the contents programatically. In your view is it going to be best to use an 'off-the-shelf' news reader, or ought it to be straightforward