[Python-Dev] Accessing mailing list archives (original) (raw)

Bob Purvy bpurvy at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 16:40:37 EDT 2018

hi all,

I've been trying to figure out how to access the archives programmatically. I'm sure this is easy once you know, but googling various things hasn't worked. What I want to do is graph the number of messages about PEP 572 by time. (or has someone already done that?)

I installed GNU Mailman, and downloaded the gzip'ed archives for a number of months and unzipped them, and I suspect that there's some way to get them all into a single database, but it hasn't jumped out at me. If I count the "Message-ID" lines, the "Subject:" lines, and the "\nFrom " lines in one of those text files, I get slightly different numbers for each.

Alternatively, they're maybe already in a database, and I just need API access to do the querying? Can someone help me out?

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