June 2009 archive


    
27 June 2009

Python script: Extract slashdot user names and ID numbers from a story discussion

I was reading slashdot yesterday and some (inane) comments about people's user ID numbers made me curious about the overall distribution of IDs in slashdot discussions. It didn't take long to take what I'd learned about the Beautiful Soup screen-scraping library from writing my Twitter status backup script to get some simple information.
Here's a quick [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 27 June 2009 at 12:57 pm
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