Re: Using the nntplib module to count Google Groups users

2013-10-27 Thread rusi
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 12:07:29 PM UTC+5:30, Zero Piraeus wrote: > The results: > > > Senders: 1701 > GG users: 879 > > ... so just over 50%. > > > If anyone wants the complete output, just let me know and I'll email it > privately. If you have a GG account just go to the 'aboutgroup' in

Re: Using the nntplib module to count Google Groups users

2013-10-26 Thread Zero Piraeus
: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 03:35:40PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > If anyone wants to modify the script to determine the ratio of posters, > > rather than posts, using GG, be my guest. > > And if anyone does, do please post the resul

Re: Using the nntplib module to count Google Groups users

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If anyone wants to modify the script to determine the ratio of posters, > rather than posts, using GG, be my guest. I'd be interested in the > answer, but not interested enough to actually do the work myself. And if anyone does, do please

Using the nntplib module to count Google Groups users

2013-10-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
There's been a bit of a discussion about how prevalent Google Groups users are in this forum. This is a good opportunity to use one of Python's standard library modules to scan through the comp.lang.python newsgroup and find out. So here's some code to do so: import nntplib import sys s = nntp