Re: I don't understand why this fails: mbox to maildir based on docs

So this was issue 11401, right?

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:18:27 -0500, Joseph Reagle <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to do something real simple. Replicate an example in the docs for moving messages from maildir to mbox. (Docs use Babyl mailbox to an MH mailbox). But I'm failing and I don't know why?!?
> 
> <http://paste.pound-python.org/show/16992/>
> 
> ~~~~
> 
> def convert_maildir(path):
>     """Convert a maildir to mbox.
>     Replicates http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/mailbox.html#examples for maildir2mbox"""
>     info("converting %s" %path)
> 
>     destination = mailbox.mbox('~/inbox.mbox')
>     destination.lock()
>     for message in mailbox.Maildir(path):
>         info("message type = %s" %type(message))
>         destination.add(mailbox.MaildirMessage(message))
>     destination.close()
> 
> 20 <modu: Namespace(files=['Mail/inbox/'], log_to_file=False, verbose=2)
> 20 find_: filename = Mail/inbox/
> 20 find_: appending Mail/inbox/
> 20 conve: converting /home/reagle/Mail/inbox
> 20 conve: message type = <class 'mailbox.MaildirMessage'>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/reagle/bin/kmail2mbox.py", line 75, in <module>
>     convert_maildir(maildir)
>   File "/home/reagle/bin/kmail2mbox.py", line 43, in convert_maildir
>     destination.add(mailbox.MaildirMessage(message))
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/mailbox.py", line 595, in add
>     self._toc[self._next_key] = self._append_message(message)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/mailbox.py", line 733, in _append_message
>     offsets = self._install_message(message)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/mailbox.py", line 805, in _install_message
>     self._dump_message(message, self._file, self._mangle_from_)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/mailbox.py", line 215, in _dump_message
>     gen.flatten(message)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/email/generator.py", line 88, in flatten
>     self._write(msg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/email/generator.py", line 141, in _write
>     self._write_headers(msg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/email/generator.py", line 373, in _write_headers
>     self.write(header.encode(linesep=self._NL)+self._NL)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/email/header.py", line 317, in encode
>     formatter.feed(lines[0], charset)
> IndexError: list index out of range
> 
> ~~~~
> 
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