How to Generate dynamic HTML Report using Python

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 08:36:06 EST 2017


On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 5:27:42 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 11/20/17 9:50 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> > Ned Batchelder  writes:
> >> Also, why set headers that prevent the Python-List mailing list from
> >> archiving your messages?
> >    I am posting to a Usenet newsgroup. I am not aware of any
> >    "Python-List mailing list".
> >
> >    I am posting specifically to the Usenet, because I am aware
> >    of it's rules and I like it and wish to support it.
> >
> >    I do not post to a "mailing list" because I do not know which
> >    rules apply for mailing lists and whether mailing lists in
> >    general or any specific mailing list is an environment that I
> >    like or wish to support.
> >
> 
> The dual nature of this online community has long been confusing and 
> complicated.  It's both a newsgroup and a mailing list.  Add in Google 
> Groups, and you really have three different faces of the same content.
> 
> The fact is, posting to comp.lang.python means that your words are also 
> being distributed as a mailing list. Because of your messages' headers, 
> they are not in the archive of that list 
> (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-November/thread.html), 
> or in Google Groups 
> (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/0ejrtZ6ET9g). 
> It makes for odd reading via those channels.
> 
> I don't understand the motivation for limiting how words are 
> distributed, but others on this list also do it. For example, Dennis Lee 
> Bieber's messages are not in the Python-List archives either. If 
> something is worth saying, why not let people find it later?

To which I would add:
Setting headers is hardly a working method.
Somebody quotes Stefan or Dennis and they are on the archives
And some quote including emails some not
etc



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