Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #60732

Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP?

Show key headers only | View raw

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:11:30 -0800 (PST), Eamonn Rea <eamonnrea@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>Oh, sorry, I'm new to how Google Groups works. I wonder why it lays it out like that. Can it not just show quotes like the way that PHPbb does?
>

	Google Groups works well as long as the messages stay on GG...

	It's what it does when translating between GG's HTML and the rest of
the world using NNTP/SMTP standards that causes the problems.

	SMTP/NNTP standards recommend lines of <80 characters (Hollerith punch
card/old teletype/terminal physical limit). MIME Quoted-Printable permits
virtual long lines by 1) message header identifying QP format, 2) using an
=<newline> to break the long line into shorter segments. Clients would
remove the =<newline> and unwrap the longer line.

	GG /appears/ to be replacing new-lines with HTTP <P> markers for
received messages. The problem is that on output back to the net, it seems
to then replace the <P> with TWO new-lines (ie; puts in a blank line
between every original line). And since it treats everything one enters as
an HTML <P>, it is sending paragraphs as one line of text.

	PHPbb would have to go through hoops too, to transfer messages from its
internal format (HTML) to non-HTML NNTP/SMTP format.

	GG's change (sometime last year as I recall) simplified the web-based
handling of its messages -- at the cost of trashing classical Usenet and
Mailing lists that it cross-links.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Eamonn Rea <eamonnrea@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 12:48 -0800
  Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 15:10 -0600
  Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-25 21:20 +0000
  Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Eamonn Rea <eamonnrea@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 10:09 -0800
    Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-26 13:52 -0500
    Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-11-26 20:40 +0100
      Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Eamonn Rea <eamonnrea@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 14:49 -0800
        Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 10:20 +1100
          Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Eamonn Rea <eamonnrea@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 08:11 -0800
            Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 04:28 +1100
            Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 10:32 -0800
            Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-28 16:29 -0500
        Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-26 23:21 +0000
        Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2013-12-02 09:39 -0500

csiph-web