mailbox.Maildir(), confusing documentation

[tinnews]

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.

Anyway I'm happy that mailbox.Maildir() will create maildirs and it
means I can do basically what I want but the documentation could be a
bit more helpful. Are there any HowTos or FAQs for this (quite new I
know) part of Python?

 

[Peter Otten]

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:
$ find .
..
../alpha
../alpha/tmp
../alpha/cur
../alpha/new
../alpha/.beta
../alpha/.beta/tmp
../alpha/.beta/cur
../alpha/.beta/new
../alpha/.beta/maildirfolder
$

Peter

 

[tinnews]

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.