[issue2209] mailbox module doesn't support compressed mbox

[Jürgen A. Erhard]

New submission from Jürgen A. Erhard:

(Not sure if this goes here)
The mbox class (actually, the _singlefileMailbox class) takes a path,
and not, as the old mailbox module did, an opened file object.  This
makes it hard(er) to access gzipped mbox files (mailbox.open = gzip.open
works, but is ugly).

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 63132
nosy: jae
severity: normal
status: open
title: mailbox module doesn't support compressed mbox
versions: Python 2.5

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