[Python-Dev] Quick access to Python bug reports in Thunderbird
I find that I frequently need to open a bug report whose bug number is in a python-dev email I read with Mozilla Thunderbird. I now tried to automate things a bit more, and found the excellent DictionarySearch plugin: http://dictionarysearch.mozdev.org/index.html To install, follow these steps: 1. Download the plugin (for Thunderbird, make sure to download to disk) http://dictionarysearch.mozdev.org/download.php/http://downloads.mozdev.org/dictionarysearch/dictionarysearch_0.8.xpi 2. In Thunderbird, open Tools/Extensions/Install, select the file downloaded 3. Open Tools/Extensions again, double-click DictionarySearch. 4. In Dictionary 1, fill in Text: Python Bug $ Access Key: y (as P will conflict with Print) URL: http://www.python.org/sf/$ To use the plugin, select a bug report number in a message, select the context menu, and type y (or click the Python Bug menu entry). Regards, Martin P.S. In case you wonder why this plugin is DictionarySearch: it is meant to lookup words in an email in a dictionary, e.g. Wikipedia. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] Quick access to Python bug reports in Thunderbird
Alan McIntyre wrote: Thanks, somehow I managed to be oblivious to patches bugs being essentially the same thing on SF. :-) The SF URLs are different (or atleast, they used to be (*), as they also include the tracker ID and the project ID, and SF complains if you guess either wrong. Therefore, I wrote http://www.python.org/sf/ (also accessible through sf?id=) which looks an ID up in all trackers, in sequence, and caches the result in a file. Unfortunately, this a) fails if the item gets moved between trackers b) takes some time on the first access Nevertheless, it works in most cases, and it is easier to remember - especially as the shortest form is python.org/sf/itemid (browsers will add the http://, DNS will add the www., and the script will forward to SF index.php) Regards, Martin (*) Apparently, SF now supports an (apparently undocumented) URL format of http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=itemid I'ld like to try this some day more systematically, to see whether it would help simplifying the current Python script on python.org. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] Quick access to Python bug reports in Thunderbird
Johannes Gijsbers wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:45:37PM -0500, Alan McIntyre wrote: Martin, Thanks; that works very well (in Firefox, too). I got it to work for patches, but the URL is a bit uglier (like this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=$group_id=5470atid=305470). I assume there's a way to shorten that some, but it works as is and I probably won't change it. :-) The URL used by Martin should work for patches as well. Johannes Paul, Thanks, somehow I managed to be oblivious to patches bugs being essentially the same thing on SF. :-) Alan ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
