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How many women has GitHub hired since May 2011?
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
import requests | |
gh_url = "https://github.com/blog/%s" | |
titles = [] | |
# all posts since the 19th of May 2011 | |
for r in xrange(858, 1395): | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(gh_url % r).content) | |
titles.append(soup.html.head.title.text) | |
hiring_announcements = 0 | |
for title in titles: | |
if u"GitHubber" in title: | |
hiring_announcements += 1 | |
print(title) | |
print("Total hires", hiring_announcements) | |
# hiring_announcements is now 121 | |
# Ordered List is a company, so let's drop that to 120 | |
# Fourteen of those hires are female | |
# That's 11.66%. | |
# I assume gaug.es and Ordered List have some female employees. | |
# Their enumeration is left as an exercise for the reader |
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