John Hawkinson

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I believe this is the proper issue, @danieldjewell. The case you cite, USA v. Lacey, is expected to have 8 RECAP dockets, since there are 7 criminal subcases plus the...

Is there an overview of good webhook design practice somewhere? Are there rich tools for manipulating webhooks? Can we avoid reinventing the wheel(house)?

A more compact one-liner test case: ```sh jhawk@lrr ~ % echo foo | /usr/bin/awk '{stdoff_column = 2 * /^Zone/ + 1}' /usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 1 context is...

> That spec speaks of "**ERE** tokens", which _appear_ to be of the form "/_ere_/", but I don't see any specification of what an "**ERE** token" is in the spec....

So, this is another situation where our data model does not properly reflect CMECF's. This is not, strictly speaking, "more than one docket entry." It is a single docket entry...

> but short of that we can at least put a copy of the doc into multiple cases so they all have it. I continue to think the better answer...

I feel like I gave you some good examples recently, like: 1: **[Redacted] wanted to convert the PACER docket report's list of parties/attorneys into a spreadsheet. How would she do...

> Just being curious: why are you porting code from Mechanize to MechanicalSoup? Well, I'd like to say the reason is I wanted connection-reuse, which MechanicalSoup supports via Requests, and...

> Looking through the code more, I see that we have a similar inconsistency with `self.page` and `self.form`. One thing to note, however, is that the `self.form` property does more...

In `mechanicalsoup`, a "page" is defined to be a BeautifulSoup object, and it's assumed that BeautifulSoup can only parse HTML, although that is not correct — bs4 can parse XML...