[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having got my Python 2.5.2 installed I'm trying some things out with > the mailbox.Maildir() class. > > If I do the following:- > > import maibox > mailbox.Maildir("/home/isbd/Mail/Li/pytest") > > then the pytest Maildir mailbox is created - which is great but isn't > documented. If the above creates the maildir then what is the > mailbox.Maildir.add_folder() method for? I tried > mailbox.Maildir.add_folder() and it appeared to do nothing, it didn't > produce any errors either.
You didn't expect the dot, it seems: >>> import mailbox >>> m = mailbox.Maildir("alpha") >>> m.add_folder("beta") <mailbox.Maildir instance at 0x2af9e9e51f80> >>> $ find . . ./alpha ./alpha/tmp ./alpha/cur ./alpha/new ./alpha/.beta ./alpha/.beta/tmp ./alpha/.beta/cur ./alpha/.beta/new ./alpha/.beta/maildirfolder $ Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list