[Tutor] Too many open files -- how to copy a folder?

[Matej Cepl]

Hi,

I've tried this:

blahoslav:matej$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Sep 24 2004, 08:39:09)
[GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-12)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mailbox
>>> box = mailbox.Maildir("/home/matej/WP/trash/")
>>> another = [x for x in box]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/mailbox.py", line 246, in next
IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files:
'/home/matej/WP/trash/cur/1098844013.6284.XKuCF:2,S'

Can be done something about that? Of course, that I will use some filter in
the mapping, but still even when I try

>>> import email,email.Utils
>>> import mailbox
>>> box = mailbox.Maildir("/home/matej/WP/trash/")
>>> date = email.Utils.parsedate_tz
>>> import time
>>> dlist = list(time.localtime())
>>> dlist[1] -= 3
>>> archdate = tuple(dlist)
>>> alist = [x for x in box if date(x['date'])<archdate]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/mailbox.py", line 246, in next
IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files:
'/home/matej/WP/trash/cur/1098844013.6284.XKuCF:2,S'
>>>

I don't get too far (and the folder is not that extreme -- 1333 messages).
Any thoughts?

Matej


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