Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote: > > I suppose I could do the following:- > > > > lock the mbox > > get the atime > > add the new message with mailbox.mbox.add() > > restore the atime > > unlock the mbox > > You could fix mbox.add(). ;) > Yes, but I'm not sure that I'm that competant!
> > All I need to do now is find out how to get and set atime with python. > > You use os.utime(). > > From http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#module-os: > > os.utime(path, times) > > Set the access and modified times of the file specified by > path. If times is None, then the file's access and > modified times are set to the current time. (The effect is > similar to running the Unix program touch on the path.) > Otherwise, times must be a 2-tuple of numbers, of the form > (atime, mtime) which is used to set the access and modified > times, respectively. Whether a directory can be given for > path depends on whether the operating system implements > directories as files (for example, Windows does not). Note > that the exact times you set here may not be returned by a > subsequent stat() call, depending on the resolution with > which your operating system records access and modification > times; see stat(). > > Changed in version 2.0: Added support for None for times. > > Availability: Unix, Windows. > Thanks! -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
