[ python-Bugs-1607951 ] mailbox.Maildir re-reads directory too often

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Bugs item #1607951, was opened at 2006-12-03 12:28
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Matthias Klose (doko)
>Assigned to: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Summary: mailbox.Maildir re-reads directory too often

Initial Comment:
[forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/401395]

Various functions in mailbox.Maildir call self._refresh, which always re-reads the cur and new directories with os.listdir.  _refresh should stat each of the two directories first to see if they changed.  This cuts processing time of a series of lookups down by a factor of the number of messages in the folder, a potentially large number.


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