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Re: [flask] Subscriber count?

From:

Simon Sapin

Date:

2010-11-09 @ 00:21

Le 09/11/2010 08:57, Dag Odenhall a écrit :
> The list seems quite active lately. Are there any statistics on the list
> such as total number of subscribers? Could be interesting as a worthless
> measure of Flask's popularity.

Hi,

Officially librelist does not provide any statistics but you can ask Zed 
A. Shaw on meta@libreliste.com.

The archives are public (see http://librelist.com/help.html) so it would 
be easy to count posters, though that doesn’t tell anything about 
subscribers.

Regards,
-- 
Simon Sapin

We can figure out how many unique posters at least:

>>> import urllib, lxml.html, re
>>> print len(dict([
...   (re.findall('by (.*)', post.text)[0], 1)
...   for post in lxml.html.fromstring(
...     urllib.urlopen('http://librelist.com/browser/flask/').read()
...   ).cssselect('.meta')
... ]).keys())
109
>>>

-- Jonas