Re: mailbox module difficulties

2011-11-28 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
On 2011-11-28, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Eduardo Alvarez wrote: > >> however, if I do the following: >> >> b = mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir") >> b.items() >> >> I get an empty list. >> >> I don't understand why this is so, specially since the last example in >> the documentation show

Re: mailbox module difficulties

2011-11-28 Thread Peter Otten
Eduardo Alvarez wrote: > however, if I do the following: > > b = mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir") > b.items() > > I get an empty list. > > I don't understand why this is so, specially since the last example in > the documentation shows a reference to a Maildir object being created. > Why does this

Re: mailbox module difficulties

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Eduardo Alvarez wrote: > if I call a Maildir object directly, the module works perfectly. I can, > for example, call > > mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir").items() > > and get the expected list of (key,Message) pairs. > > however, if I do the following: > > b = mailbox.M

mailbox module difficulties

2011-11-28 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
Hello, everyone, I'm in the process of learning how to use the mailbox module with python 3.2. I've noticed the following seemingly inconsistent behavior: if I call a Maildir object directly, the module works perfectly. I can, for example, call mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir").

Re: mailbox module

2008-08-26 Thread ra9ftm
ok, may be it is truth, because class UnixMailbox is working. I found it in "Depricated classess and methods" in manual :( here is only version 2.4 in Debian ra9ftm: > I am using Debian 4.0 Etch for my tests. May be old version of python > in this repository? -- http://mail.python.org/m

mailbox module

2008-08-25 Thread ra9ftm
Hi all. I am trying to use mailbox module, mbox class like this: import mailbox m1 = mailbox.mbox('./ra9ftm2') But it gives the following: ra9ftm:/home/ra9ftm/pyemail# python mbox1.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "mbox1.py", line 2, in ? m1 = mai

mailbox module, Maildir, and flags

2007-09-10 Thread jesse . k . rosenthal
arge maildir folder will be pretty quick. Following the same logic, I just need the unique names and the flags. Now, I know the flags are in the name, but I can't find anyway in the mailbox module to get them. So, should I just run some text parsing on the filenames, using os.listdir? Given

Re: Working with email and mailbox module

2006-09-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
Nirnimesh wrote in news:1158840271.942540.85640 @d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: > I want to extract emails from an mbox-type file which contains a number > of individual emails. > > I tried the python mailbox and email modules individually, but I'm > unable to combine them to g

Re: Working with email and mailbox module

2006-09-21 Thread Steve Holden
Nirnimesh wrote: > I want to extract emails from an mbox-type file which contains a number > of individual emails. > > I tried the python mailbox and email modules individually, but I'm > unable to combine them to get what I want. Mailbox allows me to iterate > over all the mails but doesn't give

Working with email and mailbox module

2006-09-21 Thread Nirnimesh
I want to extract emails from an mbox-type file which contains a number of individual emails. I tried the python mailbox and email modules individually, but I'm unable to combine them to get what I want. Mailbox allows me to iterate over all the mails but doesn't give me access the individual mess