clueless newbie question

[Alex]

Matthijs
> I would like to construct a html page that shows all these threads in
> a nice and orderly fashion, but don't know how to go about setting up
> the recursion you would get by pulling out subthreads, then parent
> threads, etc.

Make a tree, then print that out.  Something like this untested code:

def make_tree(message_list):
    tree = {'messages': []}
    for message_id, message in message_list:
        current_branch = tree
        for id_number in string.split(message_id):
            current_branch = tree.get(id_number, {'messages': []})
        current_branch['messages'].append(message)

def print_tree(message_tree, depth=0, indentation_depth=4):
    for message in message_tree['messages']:
        print message
        child_ids = message_tree.keys()
        child_ids.remove('message')
        for id_number in child_ids:
            print_tree(message_tree[id_number], 
                       depth, indentation_depth+4)

Alex.

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