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OK, my first python script is done.
Given a name, it creates a directory if none exists and puts a pickled state file (currently just a counter) in the directory.
Good meeting with Ellen today, we've narrowed things down a bit.daunting but nice to have someone express high expectations when I'm functioning at the apprentice level.
Well I seem to be lurching toward a thesis topic. Should be fun, I'm looking at developing an improved archiver for Mailman, specifically one that supports searching.
Current to do list:
- Develop my a simplistic archiving tool to get my feet wet w/Python.
- Research how pipermail tracks threads, report to Ellen.
- Research current archiving method from message reception to storage. Starting point=ArchRunner.py
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!