def groups(request):
global newsgroup
try:
username = request.POST['submitted_username']
password = request.POST['submitted_password']
newsgroup = NewsGroup('news.cs.illinois.edu', username, password)
except(Exception):
return redirect('/')
else:
groups = newsgroup.getGroups()
db_groups = Group.objects.all()
for group in groups:
if not db_groups.filter(name=group[0]):
g = Group(name=group[0], description = group[1])
g.save()
return render_to_response('groups/groups.html', {'group_list' : db_groups})
def main():
username = input('Username?\n')
password = input('Password?\n')
newsgroup = NewsGroup('news.cs.illinois.edu', username, password)
newsgroup.welcome()
newsgroup.getGroups()
# test group is 'cs.test'..yet it doesn't let me post to there. I get this error when trying to do so: NeoNews.backports.nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 423 No articles in 1869-
# we need to be careful about how we test this. I made a post in cs.classifieds when it worked, but I don't want to spam newsgroups(especially since I didn't get cs.test posting to work)
#CHANGE TO 'cs.classifieds' to get it to post to classifieds group. I intentionally set it to a bad group so you and I don't accidentally spam the crap out of the newsgroup
# newsgroup.setGroup('cs.test')
newsgroup.setGroup('class.fa10.cs225')
# newsgroup.group.postThread(username,'cs.test','test thread', 'This message was sent in Python!')
# newsgroup.group.listThreads()
# 4002 is a single-part message, with references
# 2000 is a multi-part message
# use message-id normally, not number
# number is used here for convenience
newsgroup.group.setThread(4002)
# print(newsgroup.group.thread.message.get_payload()[1])
print(newsgroup.group.thread.message.items())
