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).items() and get the

Re: mailbox module difficulties

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Eduardo Alvarez !nospam!astrochelon...@gmail.com 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

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 happen?

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 shows a reference to a