Improve MHMailbox: messages are now sorted in numerical order.
Also don't allow leading zeros in message numbers.
diff --git a/Lib/mailbox.py b/Lib/mailbox.py
index b5a5692..afd9a55 100755
--- a/Lib/mailbox.py
+++ b/Lib/mailbox.py
@@ -155,13 +155,18 @@
class MHMailbox:
def __init__(self, dirname):
import re
- pat = re.compile('^[0-9][0-9]*$')
+ pat = re.compile('^[1-9][0-9]*$')
self.dirname = dirname
files = os.listdir(self.dirname)
- self.boxes = []
+ list = []
for f in files:
if pat.match(f):
- self.boxes.append(f)
+ list.append(f)
+ list = map(long, list)
+ list.sort()
+ # This only works in Python 1.6 or later;
+ # before that str() added 'L':
+ self.boxes = map(str, list)
def next(self):
if not self.boxes: