Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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: > I didn't 'expect' the dot because it's not standard maildir syntax, it's just one particular way of doing it.
... but thanks for pointing out what was going on. :-) > >>> 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 -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list