mailbox module difficulties

[Eduardo Alvarez]

On 2011-11-28, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> Eduardo Alvarez wrote:
>
>> however, if I do the following:
>> 
>> b = mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir")
>> b.items()
>> 
>> I get an empty list.
>> 
>> I don't understand why this is so, specially since the last example in
>> the documentation shows a reference to a Maildir object being created.
>> Why does this happen?
>
> Could this be
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue13254
>
> ?

Peter and Chris,

This is exactly it. I guess the version in my linux distribution is not
patched. I'll let the maintainer know, thank you!

Yours,

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Eduardo Alvarez