Re: [nimh-dev] scan is easy too

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Tom Plagge:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import email, os, string
> 
> pth = "/home/tplagge/Mail/inbox"
> 
> def parse_from(msg):
>   return email.Utils.parseaddr(msg['From'])[0]
> 
> def parse_date(msg):
>   date = email.Utils.parsedate(msg['Date'])
>   return string.zfill(str(date[1]),2) + "/" + string.zfill(str(date[2]),2)
> 
> for file in os.listdir(pth):
>   f = open(pth + "/" + file, 'r')
>   if not file.startswith(",") and not file.startswith("."):
>     msg = email.message_from_file(f)
>     print file.rjust(5) + parse_date(msg).rjust(7) + "  " + \
>           parse_from(msg)[0:17].ljust(19) + msg['Subject'][0:40]

Do either of you know of a good book I could look at for learning the 
syntax? I can tell what this does by looking at it, but I'm not sure I 
could write something that worked properly without a Python reference.


-- 
J.


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