[Mailman-Developers] nightly_gzip - more than a little broken...

[Nigel Metheringham]

I wondered why the nightly_gzip program was not working correctly on 
some of my lists - one (a high traffic list) has weekly based 
archiving, the other (an announce list) has quarterly based archiving.

A very quick look at the code shows:-
        for f in allfiles:
            try:
                time.strptime(f, '%Y-%B.txt')
            except ValueError:
                continue

that strptime seems to be ensuring that the archive mbox files have a 
year and month in their names before a .txt - and this only applies to 
monthly archives in practice.

Would there be any problems with just changing this to be a regexp 
match for '\.txt$' instead?  If you really want to check its an archive 
then look for a directory x with a file x.txt .

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham                  Nigel.Metheringham@VData.co.uk ]
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