How to Generate dynamic HTML Report using Python

Christopher Reimer christopher_reimer at icloud.com
Tue Nov 21 09:28:24 EST 2017


On Nov 21, 2017, at 5:36 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 5:27:42 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>> On 11/20/17 9:50 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>> Ned Batchelder  writes:
>>>> Also, why set headers that prevent the Python-List mailing list from
>>>> archiving your messages?
>>>   I am posting to a Usenet newsgroup. I am not aware of any
>>>   "Python-List mailing list".
>>> 
>>>   I am posting specifically to the Usenet, because I am aware
>>>   of it's rules and I like it and wish to support it.
>>> 
>>>   I do not post to a "mailing list" because I do not know which
>>>   rules apply for mailing lists and whether mailing lists in
>>>   general or any specific mailing list is an environment that I
>>>   like or wish to support.
>>> 
>> 
>> The dual nature of this online community has long been confusing and 
>> complicated.  It's both a newsgroup and a mailing list.  Add in Google 
>> Groups, and you really have three different faces of the same content.
>> 
>> The fact is, posting to comp.lang.python means that your words are also 
>> being distributed as a mailing list. Because of your messages' headers, 
>> they are not in the archive of that list 
>> (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-November/thread.html), 
>> or in Google Groups 
>> (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/0ejrtZ6ET9g). 
>> It makes for odd reading via those channels.
>> 
>> I don't understand the motivation for limiting how words are 
>> distributed, but others on this list also do it. For example, Dennis Lee 
>> Bieber's messages are not in the Python-List archives either. If 
>> something is worth saying, why not let people find it later?
> 
> To which I would add:
> Setting headers is hardly a working method.
> Somebody quotes Stefan or Dennis and they are on the archives
> And some quote including emails some not
> etc
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A troll tried to prove that I was too retarded to program in Python by claiming that I asked a question on this list in the archives that could have been answered by searching the web. The funny thing is that none of the links that the troll provided answered my question.

Chris R. 


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