[Mailman-Users] How to show name in the subscriber list mailman 2.1.2 ?

[Richard Barrett]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:33 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks to Richard, I came up with an extremely crude patch to do what 
> Rob asked for.
>
> I modified the FormatUsers function in 
> ~mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py
>
> At the end of this function there is a line:
>     got = Link(url, showing)
>
> I changed it to be:
>     gotname = self.getMemberName(person)
>     got = Link(url, showing)
>     got = Container(got, '-', gotname)
>
> And restarted Mailman.
>
> The bad news is that the name is rendered as
>
> u'John DeCarlo'
> u"Bill O'Grady"
>
> I don't know where the "u" comes from, but as I have said before, my 
> Python skills are extremely crude.
>

This is because the name is a Unicode string.

If you said this it might fix things:

gotname = str(self.getMemberName(person))

> Hope this helps.
>
> Richard Barrett wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 06:02 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
>>> Rob,
>>>
>>> I can't help you with the web interface.  The cgi-bin programs are 
>>> not plain text Python.  Presumably they are compiled code, binaries.
>>>
>> Not quite correct. The actual work of MM CGI programs is done by 
>> regular Python scripts located in $prefix/Mailman/Cgi
>
>>> Rob Brandt wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was hoping for a subscriber's list function including names that 
>>>> could be
>>>> browsed from the listinfo page.  I've never really understood why 
>>>> it's not
>>>> there in the first place; I've never seen the usefulness of showing 
>>>> a
>>>> subscriber's list on listinfo containing only email addresses.
>
> -- 
>
> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
>
>