[Teammetrics-discuss] Converter for mboxes (Was: Debian mailing lists archives as mbox)

Alexander Wirt formorer at formorer.de
Tue Aug 30 07:50:42 UTC 2011


Sukhbir Singh schrieb am Dienstag, den 30. August 2011:

> Hi,
> 
> > ./mboxfilter.py:51: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python
> > 2.6
> >  File "./mboxfilter.py", line 51
> >      with open(mbox_file) as f:
> 
> This is because I *assumed* you would run this with Python 2.6+. I can
> fix this to run with 2.5 also (or just add `from __future__ import
> with_statement`) at the top.
Why? is 2.6 default on stable now? python2.6 is not installed on liszt and I don't
think we should install it just for this script.

> > I said you perl would be better.
> 
> I don't know Perl at all and Python is the language of the project and
> hence this was done in that also. I think we should not make it a Perl
> vs Python thing, when I am ready to fix it as you want :)
Yeah. But I had time for the thing yesterday and it didn't worked. With perl
I would have been able to fix it on my own. Thats why we said perl is
preferred. 

> 
> > P.S. next time you package stuff, please add them them into a directory.
> > extracting into the root isn't that nice.
> 
> We save the filtered mbox in the directory of the mbox file that was
> passed to the script. As nothing was specified to us, we took this
> approach. Let me know your preferences and I will add them.
Ehm I am talking about the tgz the script was in. 

Alex
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