“coding” in python
My girlfriend used haloscan as a commenting system for her blog at blogger for several years. As far as I know that was because the default commenting system provided was really bad. This changed some time ago (after an upgrade made by google which owns blogger now) and now she wants to transfer the old comments. She found a howto and so I had to try it.
I’ve never coded anything in Python until today, but at least I already used Perl and Ruby, so it was not that hard to modify the script. At the end it just was a bit of regex’ing. Now we have an xml file with all the comments, but importing it into blogger will be much harder: the blogger api provides a commenting function, but you can’t specify the date…
No surprise, right?