From 08eeadac277982f3e4a501a976e035be6c0ef83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:36:15 +0000 Subject: Issue #10283: Add a `group_pattern` argument to NNTP.list(). --- Lib/nntplib.py | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Lib/nntplib.py') diff --git a/Lib/nntplib.py b/Lib/nntplib.py index fde339a7f3..d5786e2db1 100644 --- a/Lib/nntplib.py +++ b/Lib/nntplib.py @@ -571,14 +571,19 @@ class _NNTPBase: cmd = 'NEWNEWS {0} {1} {2}'.format(group, date_str, time_str) return self._longcmdstring(cmd, file) - def list(self, *, file=None): - """Process a LIST command. Argument: + def list(self, group_pattern=None, *, file=None): + """Process a LIST or LIST ACTIVE command. Arguments: + - group_pattern: a pattern indicating which groups to query - file: Filename string or file object to store the result in Returns: - resp: server response if successful - list: list of (group, last, first, flag) (strings) """ - resp, lines = self._longcmdstring('LIST', file) + if group_pattern is not None: + command = 'LIST ACTIVE ' + group_pattern + else: + command = 'LIST' + resp, lines = self._longcmdstring(command, file) return resp, self._grouplist(lines) def _getdescriptions(self, group_pattern, return_all): -- cgit v1.2.1