MHMailbox Class Reference

Public Member Functions
def	__init__
def	__iter__
def	next

Data Fields
	dirname
	boxes
	factory

Detailed Description

Definition at line 183 of file mailbox.py.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

def __init__	(		self,
			dirname,
			factory = rfc822.Message
	)

Definition at line 184 of file mailbox.py.

    def __init__(self, dirname, factory=rfc822.Message):
        import re
        pat = re.compile('^[1-9][0-9]*$')
        self.dirname = dirname
        # the three following lines could be combined into:
        # list = map(long, filter(pat.match, os.listdir(self.dirname)))
        list = os.listdir(self.dirname)
        list = filter(pat.match, list)
        list = map(long, list)
        list.sort()
        # This only works in Python 1.6 or later;
        # before that str() added 'L':
        self.boxes = map(str, list)
        self.factory = factory