I won’t say “Python Sucks” – that would be a terribly irresponsible thing to say. I will say that it’s “challenging”. It’s certainly frustrating to deal with as a Perl programmer.
On the one hand, I was very pleasantly surprised at just how little code I had to write in order to retrieve all of my Wordpress comment notifications. Saving them to mbox format was also simple enough, although mutt’s idea of what constitutes mbox format set me back for a while. There is, of course, no actual defined standard for mbox, but that’s another rant…
Oh, and this site was defaced this morning. Which was nice. Something to do a file called .wp-rocn.php. Google shows 0 results – maybe a zero-day vuln? I’ve tightened things up a little here, and made backups. We’ll see what happens…
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