Re: [nimh-dev] scan is easy too

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.


I have O'Reilly's _Python in a Nutshell_, which is not a good tutorial, 
but does tend to be a decent reference, in my limited experience. The 
python.org site has a lot of good reference material, too.


Jon
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