Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > On 22Jan2022 21:26, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > >So I need to test whether a point I have reached in the hierarchy is a > >maildir mailbox or not. Using mbox format it's easy because 'folders' > >are directories and mailboxes are files. However with maildir the > >'folders' have directories within them so the simple tree walking goes > >down a level too far and finds 'folders' which aren't mailboxes called > >'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. > > > >Is there any 'ready made' way in python to tell whether a directory is > >a maildir mailbox? If not I suppose I'll simply have to check if > >there are 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories within the directory > >which may or may not be a maildir. > > I was hoping that the provided mailbox/Maildir class had something, but > apparently not. > So was I! :-) It seems strange that something isn't provided as it's rather fundamental to handling maildir.
> So I suggest fetching my cs.mailutils module from PyPI and using its > ismaildir(path) function, which does exactly what you describe. > Thanks Cameron. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
