[Python-talk] Kent's Korner?

[Bill Sconce]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:37:43 -0400
Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

> Ted Roche wrote:
> > http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PastEvents2007
> > 
> > viewing the page and passing ?raw=on (or perhaps ?skin=print.pattern) at
> > the end of the URI gives less chrome and more data. Perhaps you'd
> > consider using this as an example of what BeautifulSoup can do?
> 
> Sure, I can do that.
> 
> Kent


Hi, guys -

{Here we go with another of those make-the-rest-of-the-group-mad-because-
of-an-offline-conversation-about-group-plans... :}

But especially to Kent: the proposal has been made, batted around, and
in some quarters criticised to a certain extent, that we try a development
sprint for this PySIG meeting.  I'm on the fence myself about whether it's
a good idea, but a true experiment always "succeeds".  (You always learn
something.  :)  What do you think, Kent?

We DON'T have the ingredients for a "sprint" in the usual PyCon or Ubuntu
sense (where the heavy-duty developers all bring their laptops and solve
a certain gnarly problem).

We do have certain ingredients for maybe solving a simple problem, and
using it as an enteraining program (i.e., Ted's screen scraper).  The 
primary experimental aspect of it is that we don't know how it will turn
out...  and that without having the code prepared, and formatted on S5
slides beforehand we'll have to allow the disscussion to go wherever
events take us.  The ingredients we have:
  1. Python
  2. A projector
  3. Kent's Korner (and a little library module which scrapes HTML)
  4. A willingness to throw away code which doesn't work

The proposal seems to be:
  1. Kent's Korner -- introduce the little library module, BeautifulSoup.
  2. Someone drives, putting code onto the wall as suggested by the group.

-Bill

P.S. What the heck: I don't see why this can't go out to the troupe.
(Sorry. I didn't see it coming either.)