On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:46:58PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > It's worth considering the question of whether prominence equals extremism. > To that end, I dashed off a quick Python script (attached) and fed it my > debian-legal folder, which in its present state contains all the mails I've > been sent from that list (I subscribe to it) since 1 January 2004.
True to form, I said I'd attach the script and forgot to do so. Thanks to Romain Francoise for pointing this out to me. It's pretty trivial, and doesn't deserve the attention I am calling to it by having to follow-up to myself just to supply it. :) Still, since I bandied about statistics, I figured it was only fair to expose my method. (This reads directly from a mailbox and come to think of it, the sorted() call is not useful. Here's how I processed the output for the "top ten list": $ ./countfrom <~/Mail/debian-legal | sort -n | tac | head ) -- G. Branden Robinson | I'm reluctant to use fancy Debian GNU/Linux | polysyllables like "philosophy" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | refer to what seems ordinary common http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | sense. -- Noam Chomsky
#!/usr/bin/python2.4
import re
import sys
# Dictionary to hold unique From: lines.
index = { }
for line in sys.stdin:
# We're only interested in From: header lines.
expr = re.compile(r'^From: ')
if expr.match(line):
if line not in index.keys():
index[line] = 1
else:
index[line] = index[line] + 1
for item in sorted(index.keys()):
sys.stdout.write("%s\t%s" % (index[item], item))
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