nntplib: abstraction of threads

[Werner Amann]

Rakesh schrieb:

> What I want is to *group the messages belonging to each thread* .

Hello

Why not sort with Message-ID and References?
Attention - it is a Newbie-Solution.

import nntplib

hamster = nntplib.NNTP('127.0.0.1', 119, 'user', 'pass')
resp, count, first, last, name = hamster.group('comp.lang.python')
resp, items = hamster.xover(first,last)

start_dic = {}
re_dic = {}
numb = 1
    
for id,subject,author,date,message_id,references,size,lines in items:
    if 'Re:' not in subject:
        start_dic[subject] = (author, message_id)
    else:
        re_dic[numb] = (subject, author, references)
    numb += 1

resp = hamster.quit()

for a in start_dic:
    print a
    print start_dic[a][0]
    for b in re_dic:
        if start_dic[a][1] in re_dic[b][2]:
            print '|'
            print ' ->', re_dic[b][0]
            print '   ', re_dic[b][1]
    print 

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Werner Amann