[EuroPython] Exporting the registration data

[M.-A. Lemburg]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I've hacked up the script Joachim sent to generate CSV, but
> the export still fails with the following errors:
> 
> *** failed to fetch item 021481207: UTF-8 decoding error: invalid data
> *** failed to fetch item 02147102801: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 583, column 16
> *** failed to fetch item 021471034: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 297, column 16
> *** failed to fetch item 021381535: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 297, column 16
> *** failed to fetch item 021431710: UTF-8 decoding error: invalid data
> *** failed to fetch item 021371645: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 506, column 32
> *** failed to fetch item 021471421: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 531, column 16
> *** failed to fetch item 021441050: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 297, column 16
> *** failed to fetch item 021450024: not well-formed (invalid token): 
> line 583, column 16
> 
> This looks like a server side problem to me. Esp. the not
> well-formed errors are disturbing. The server side should use
> Latin-1 as default encoding rather than UTF-8.

Looking at the successfully exported data it seems we have
one big mess there ;-)

The date format seems to have changed sometimes, amount sometimes
contains a list of two strings, some entries use '' others None,
the mail field starts with an \n.

Also, there are some strange entries like the one with
email "debian@debian.org" -- has the form been hacked or
was this a test ?

I'll fix the script to recognize these special cases...

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH
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