[Tutor] Top posters to tutor list for 2008

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I think the figures reflect the general level of activity on the list.
> We seem to have peaked in 2005...
> Statistics, don't you love 'em :-)

I couldn't resist adding a total number of posts and percent to the
calculations. Statistics + python = time sink :-) I re-ran the program
back to 2003. New program and results below. 2005 was a banner year.
2008 was down considerably from 2007 and that does account for our
smaller numbers. BTW your historical counts are up a bit in this set
because this is the first year I had the name folding. Maybe I should
add a set of known aliases also...

Kent

''' Counts all posts to Python-tutor by author'''
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
from datetime import date, timedelta
import operator, urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

today = date.today()

for year in range(2003, 2009):
    startDate = date(year, 1, 1)
    endDate = date(year, 12, 31)
    thirtyOne = timedelta(days=31)
    counts = {}

    # Collect all the counts for a year by scraping the monthly author
archive pages
    while startDate < endDate and startDate < today:
        dateString = startDate.strftime('%Y-%B')

        url = 'http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/%s/author.html'
% dateString
        data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
        soup = BeautifulSoup(data)

        li = soup.findAll('li')[2:-2]

        for l in li:
            name = l.i.string.strip()
            counts[name] = counts.get(name, 0) + 1

        startDate += thirtyOne

    totalPosts = sum(counts.itervalues())

    # Consolidate names that vary by case under the most popular spelling
    nameMap = dict() # Map lower-case name to most popular name
    for name, count in sorted(counts.iteritems(),
key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True):
       lower = name.lower()
       if lower in nameMap:
          # Add counts for a name we have seen already
          counts[nameMap[lower]] += count
       else:
          nameMap[lower] = name

    print
    print '%s (%s posts)' % (year, totalPosts)
    print '===='
    for name, count in sorted(counts.iteritems(),
key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:20]:
        pct = round(100.0*count/totalPosts, 1)
        print '%s %s (%s%%)' % (name.encode('utf-8',
'xmlcharrefreplace'), count, pct)
    print


# Results as of 12/31/2008:
'''

2003 (7745 posts)
====
Danny Yoo 617 (8.0%)
Alan Gauld 421 (5.4%)
Jeff Shannon 283 (3.7%)
Magnus Lycka 242 (3.1%)
Bob Gailer 195 (2.5%)
Magnus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lyck=E5?= 166 (2.1%)
alan.gauld at bt.com 161 (2.1%)
Kirk Bailey 155 (2.0%)
Gregor Lingl 152 (2.0%)
Lloyd Kvam 142 (1.8%)
Andrei 118 (1.5%)
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry 117 (1.5%)
Magnus Lyckå 113 (1.5%)
Michael Janssen 113 (1.5%)
Erik Price 100 (1.3%)
Lee Harr 88 (1.1%)
Terry Carroll 87 (1.1%)
Daniel Ehrenberg 78 (1.0%)
Abel Daniel 76 (1.0%)
Don Arnold 75 (1.0%)


2004 (7178 posts)
====
Alan Gauld 699 (9.7%)
Danny Yoo 530 (7.4%)
Kent Johnson 451 (6.3%)
Lloyd Kvam 146 (2.0%)
Dick Moores 145 (2.0%)
Liam Clarke 140 (2.0%)
Brian van den Broek 122 (1.7%)
Karl Pfl&#228;sterer 109 (1.5%)
Jacob S. 101 (1.4%)
Andrei 99 (1.4%)
Chad Crabtree 93 (1.3%)
Bob Gailer 91 (1.3%)
Magnus Lycka 91 (1.3%)
Terry Carroll 88 (1.2%)
Marilyn Davis 84 (1.2%)
Gregor Lingl 73 (1.0%)
Dave S 73 (1.0%)
Bill Mill 71 (1.0%)
Isr Gish 71 (1.0%)
Lee Harr 67 (0.9%)


2005 (9705 posts)
====
Kent Johnson 1189 (12.3%)
Danny Yoo 767 (7.9%)
Alan Gauld 565 (5.8%)
Alan G 317 (3.3%)
Liam Clarke 298 (3.1%)
Max Noel 203 (2.1%)
Nathan Pinno 197 (2.0%)
Brian van den Broek 190 (2.0%)
Jacob S. 154 (1.6%)
jfouhy at paradise.net.nz 135 (1.4%)
Alberto Troiano 128 (1.3%)
Bernard Lebel 119 (1.2%)
Joseph Quigley 101 (1.0%)
Terry Carroll 93 (1.0%)
Andrei 79 (0.8%)
D. Hartley 77 (0.8%)
John Fouhy 73 (0.8%)
bob 73 (0.8%)
Hugo Gonz&#225;lez Monteverde 72 (0.7%)
Orri Ganel 69 (0.7%)


2006 (7521 posts)
====
Kent Johnson 913 (12.1%)
Alan Gauld 821 (10.9%)
Danny Yoo 448 (6.0%)
Luke Paireepinart 242 (3.2%)
John Fouhy 187 (2.5%)
Chris Hengge 166 (2.2%)
Bob Gailer 134 (1.8%)
Dick Moores 129 (1.7%)
Asrarahmed Kadri 119 (1.6%)
Terry Carroll 111 (1.5%)
Python 94 (1.2%)
Mike Hansen 74 (1.0%)
Liam Clarke 72 (1.0%)
Carroll, Barry 67 (0.9%)
Kermit Rose 66 (0.9%)
anil maran 66 (0.9%)
Hugo Gonz&#225;lez Monteverde 65 (0.9%)
wesley chun 63 (0.8%)
Dave S 58 (0.8%)
Christopher Spears 53 (0.7%)


2007 (7600 posts)
====
Kent Johnson 1052 (13.8%)
Alan Gauld 977 (12.9%)
Luke Paireepinart 260 (3.4%)
Dick Moores 203 (2.7%)
Eric Brunson 164 (2.2%)
Bob Gailer 144 (1.9%)
Terry Carroll 128 (1.7%)
Tiger12506 112 (1.5%)
John Fouhy 105 (1.4%)
Ricardo Ar&#225;oz 93 (1.2%)
Rikard Bosnjakovic 93 (1.2%)
bhaaluu 88 (1.2%)
elis aeris 83 (1.1%)
Andreas Kostyrka 77 (1.0%)
Michael Langford 68 (0.9%)
shawn bright 63 (0.8%)
Tim Golden 62 (0.8%)
Dave Kuhlman 62 (0.8%)
wormwood_3 53 (0.7%)
wesley chun 53 (0.7%)


2008 (6624 posts)
====
Kent Johnson 931 (14.1%)
Alan Gauld 820 (12.4%)
bob gailer 247 (3.7%)
Dick Moores 191 (2.9%)
W W 142 (2.1%)
Wayne Watson 106 (1.6%)
John Fouhy 97 (1.5%)
Steve Willoughby 91 (1.4%)
Lie Ryan 88 (1.3%)
bhaaluu 85 (1.3%)
Marc Tompkins 83 (1.3%)
Michael Langford 71 (1.1%)
Tiger12506 70 (1.1%)
Andreas Kostyrka 64 (1.0%)
Dinesh B Vadhia 64 (1.0%)
wesley chun 58 (0.9%)
Tim Golden 57 (0.9%)
Chris Fuller 54 (0.8%)
Ricardo Ar&#225;oz 53 (0.8%)
spir 53 (0.8%)
'''