On 29/09/17 18:02, Chris wrote: > I'd like to store a directory tree in a python script.
That doesn't make much sense. A directory tree is stored on the hard disk. A python script is the source code to a program you execute What do you mean by "store the directory tree in the script"? Do you mean you want the script to copy an existing directory tree? Or to create a new one? Or to store some kind of representation of the tree in memory when your code runs? Or create a static model of a directory tree in your source code? Or something else? - if so, what? > Background: Maildirs with mails older than five years should be > archived. The folder structure should be kept in the target. Again that's not very clear. Which mail system? Which OS? Some use a single file? Others use a directory tree (so I'm guess you mean one of those) and others use a database. (the representation as folders within a mail client bears little resemblance to how the physical data may be stored on disk) And what are you trying to do? remove old folders from the existing mail system - that could screw up its internal integrity checking (checksums for example)~ - or create an archive elsewhere? > I was very surprised, that there seems no readily usable module > available. (In Perl neither). Once we understand what you actually want to do we might find something suitable. But for now I have no clue what exactly you need. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
