[Tutor] Programmatic access to email archives (was: constructing semi-arbitrary functions)

[Ben Finney]

"André Walker-Loud <walksloud at gmail.com>" <walksloud at gmail.com> writes:

> and as a follow up - is there a way to download a thread from the
> tutor archive?

You've indicated you know this, but for other readers: The mailing list
archives are available <URL:https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/> in
compressed “mbox” format, by month.

> 2) download the whole gzip’d text and use python to grab only the
> parts I want

A decent email client (such as Mutt, Gnus, Thunderbird, etc.) will be
able to open an mbox-format archive as a folder, and from there you can
filter and reply to messages as normal.

For programmatic access, the Python standard library ‘mailbox’ module
<URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/mailbox.html> supports reading
“mbox”, and you then have all the Mailbox methods to select and extract
messages.

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Ben Finney