[Tutor] constructing semi-arbitrary functions

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 20 February 2014 00:56, "André Walker-Loud <walksloud at gmail.com>"
<walksloud at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 7:45 PM, André Walker-Loud <walksloud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK - I have not seen an email from Peter.
>> So I looked up the thread online, and see I did not receive half the emails on this thread :O
>>
>> My first inclination was to blame my mac mavericks mail gmail syncing problem.  but logging into gmail, I see no record of the emails there either.
>>
>> I currently receive the tutor emails in the digest mode - thought I was paying attention to all the digests - but I seems to have missed many.
>>
>> I apologize to all those who offered input whose emails I missed - I certainly wasn't ignoring them.
>
> and as a follow up - is there a way to download a thread from the tutor archive?
> I am guessing the answers are one of
> 1) write a python script to grab the emails associated with the threads from the web
> 2) download the whole gzip'd text and use python to grab only the parts I want
>
> but 1) I haven't done that before and unfortunately don't have time to learn now
> 2) some combination of being too busy and lazy prevents me from this option...

I'm sure there is a way to do it (I don't know how exactly) but for
now you have the archive here:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-February/100213.html

I would suggest not to receive the digest. Peter's messages were sent
to the list and not CC'ed to you (which is often considered the
correct way) so you would only have seen them in the digest but it's
not so easy to follow a thread that way.

I also use gmail and what I do is to set a filter that sends all the
tutor emails into a particular folder (skip inbox, don't mark as read)
and then there's no problem with the emails cluttering up my inbox and
no need to receive a digest. When I feel like looking at tutor emails
they're in a particular folder for me to look at. When I feel like
processing work-related emails etc. then they're in different folders.
When I do look at the messages they are threaded by gmail so I don't
miss anything in a particular thread.


Oscar