mailbox module difficulties

[Eduardo Alvarez]

Hello, everyone,

I'm in the process of learning how to use the mailbox module with python
3.2. I've noticed the following seemingly inconsistent behavior:

if I call a Maildir object directly, the module works perfectly. I can,
for example, call

mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir").items()

and get the expected list of (key,Message) pairs.

however, if I do the following:

b = mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir")
b.items()

I get an empty list. 

I don't understand why this is so, specially since the last example in
the documentation shows a reference to a Maildir object being created.
Why does this happen?

yours,

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Eduardo Alvarez