[Python-Dev] str.rreplace (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 18:46:39 CET 2014

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com> wrote:

I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them:

- 58% are about third-party packages. - 17% are off-topic (not even programming related) - 11% are 2-vs-3 discussions - 5% are job offers. - 5% (which is just one thread out of 17) is about Python the language.

My analysis here is based on what I see arriving in Gmail, so some of them may have been dropped into spam. But these are the threads with the most recent posts:

"The potential for a Python 2.8" - discussing the language, though the last few posts drifted off into numeric jokes (also fun). "Class and instance related questions" - short thread but completely on topic (so far) "Python declarative" - not all the code shown has been Python, and a lot of the discussion centers around alternatives like XML and JSON, but it's definitely focused on Python "datetime as subclass of date" - on topic "Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism" - haven't been following it, but last I saw it was on topic "Elementree and insert new element if it is not present" - might count as discussion of a separate module, I guess "generate De Bruijn sequence memory and string vs lists" - all about how to do it in Python, looks on topic to me "Need Help with Programming Science Project" - the OP never said that the program was to be in Python, but if we assume that, it's completely on topic

Further down than that we have a few about SQLite, which Python comes with, and an announcement of a new version of Dipy. Far as I can see, that's only two threads that are truly about third-party modules (that and lxml). Yes, there's some noise on the list, but it's not as bad as 16/17ths of the threads.

Maybe you're reading it in some way other than the mailing list, and it accrues more noise?

ChrisA

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