A comp.lang.python code snippet archive?

[Michael Hudson]

"Hans Nowak" <hnowak at cuci.nl> writes:

> On 28 Feb 00, at 16:03, Adrian Eyre wrote:
> 
> > > Wouldn't it be awfully neat if there were, say a website with all
> > > the code snippets ever posted to comp.lang.python?
> > 
> > Not sure if it's still being updated or not:
> > 
> > http://tor.dhs.org/~zephyrfalcon/snippets/
> 
> I haven't had much time to add new stuff, lately. :(  Aside from that, I've 
> been doubting if I should continue this project... is the site being used 
> by anyone at all? Sometimes I doubt that, I do not get many reactions nor 
> contributions. (Yes, I did get *some* snippets from some kind people, 
> thanks!) Most of the code must be extracted from newsgroup messages, which 
> is difficult for me to do these days, since every day over 100 new messages 
> are posted.
> 
> I would like to know:
> * if it's still worthwile to continue this site
> * what kind of improvements I could make (a search engine would be cool but 
> I don't know much about CGI)
> 
> Ideas, anyone?

I'd think it was worth continuing.  I'd also think it could be made
easier, however - I use gnus to read my mail, and I'd be damned if it
wasn't possible to rig things so that I could go 'M-x snippet' when I
was reading a suitable article and have it appear in the archive.

I know nothing about CGI either, I'd have to admit.

A zope product might work, too.  I have a zope account on the starship
that's just sitting idle.

I could probably be coaxed into spending a few hours on this...

oh-bugger-there-went-the-spare-time-ly y'rs
Michael

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