[Python-ideas] A different format for PI?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 23Jul2015 13:16, Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is there a forum or something similar related to python-ideas? If there
>isn't, I think there should be.
>
>The mailing list format is restrictive. There's no good way to search past
>discussions and the digests I get are disorganized and difficult to follow.
>I'd like to contribute, but I don't know if my ideas are topics that have
>already been discussed in depth or if they're actually new.

Others have posted about the many ways to search the archives. I want to add 2 
recommendations:

First, and incredibly important, if you want to participate in a list, or even 
just to lurk, do not use digest mode. It is a disaster (regardless of the 
list). Instead:

  - switch your subscription to indivdual messages

  - add a filing rule to your mailer to move all python-list (or whichever list) to its own folder. I put python-list, tutor, python-dev and python-ideas all in a shared "python" folder myself.

  - put your mail reader in "threads" mode, where all messages in a particular discussion are grouped together

This removes all the (misleading) attractions of "digest" mode.

Secondly, go to the python-ideas archive here:

  https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/

and download all the past archives (those links labelled "Gzip'd Text ...").  
Ungzip and concatenate into a large file. This can now be searched on your 
local machine.

With some effort these archives can be converted into a normal mbox mail file, 
which can be browsed in threading mode, should you wish to follow a particular 
discussion from the past.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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