mailbox module difficulties

[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 expected list of (key,Message) pairs.

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?

yours,

 

[Chris Angelico]

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.Maildir("~/Maildir")
b.items()

I get an empty list.

They ought to be equivalent. Can you post your whole code? Maybe
there's some other difference.

ChrisA

 

[Peter Otten]

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?

Could this be

http://bugs.python.org/issue13254

?

 

[Eduardo Alvarez]

Could this be

http://bugs.python.org/issue13254

?

Peter and Chris,

This is exactly it. I guess the version in my linux distribution is not
patched. I'll let the maintainer know, thank you!

Yours,