Make the Mailbox objects support iteration -- they already had the

freddrake · freddrake · commit 72987a4b9668 · 2001-05-02T20:20:53.000Z
appropriate next() method, and this is what people really want to do with
these objects in practice.
diff --git a/Lib/mailbox.py b/Lib/mailbox.py
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ def __init__(self, fp, factory=rfc822.Message):
         self.seekp = 0
         self.factory = factory
 
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
     def next(self):
         while 1:
             self.fp.seek(self.seekp)
@@ -191,6 +194,9 @@ def __init__(self, dirname, factory=rfc822.Message):
         self.boxes = map(str, list)
         self.factory = factory
 
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
     def next(self):
         if not self.boxes:
             return None
@@ -219,6 +225,9 @@ def __init__(self, dirname, factory=rfc822.Message):
 
         self.boxes = boxes
 
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
     def next(self):
         if not self.boxes:
             return None
