[Python-Dev] PyS60 - mailbox

[Guido van Rossum]

Great news on the port!

On your issue: Is this module relevant for the platform? Do you know
of any existing app that uses the qmail mailbox format?

As a work-around, I can think of several values to substitute for
atime: the current time, or the mtime, or perhaps even the max of
mtime and ctime.

--Guido

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Mahesh S <mahesh.sayibabu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am from the PyS60 (Python port on S60 platform) team. We have ported the
> Python 2.5.4 core in the latest 1.9.x series of PyS60.
> http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60
>
> Currently we have a problem with the mailbox module. Check the code snippet
> below, from the mailbox module.
>
> def clean(self):
>         """Delete old files in "tmp"."""
>         now = time.time()
>         for entry in os.listdir(os.path.join(self._path, 'tmp')):
>             path = os.path.join(self._path, 'tmp', entry)
>             if now - os.path.getatime(path) > 129600:   # 60 * 60 * 36
>                 os.remove(path)
>
> The code in red, tries to delete the files that are not accessed in the last
> 36 hours. Any idea as to how this is supposed to work on platforms that do
> not support access time, for example Symbian/S60 ? Any work around ?
>
> - Mahesh
>
>
>
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