Re: mbox2txt subject sorting patch

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> [2004-07-19 15:12]:
> I noticed that the subject sorting in the mbox2txt script does not
> ignore the leading "Re: " in the subject of replies, which makes the
> sort pretty useless.  Here's a quick patch I made to fix it.

Thans, I've commited something like this.


Index: mbox2txt
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/nm-templates/templates/mbox2txt,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 mbox2txt
--- mbox2txt	10 Feb 2004 20:07:59 -0000	1.2
+++ mbox2txt	12 Aug 2004 17:56:31 -0000
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 import email
 import email.Errors
 import mailbox
-import sys
+import re, sys
 
 from email.Utils import parsedate_tz, mktime_tz
 
@@ -55,9 +55,12 @@
     mb = open(filename)
     mbox = mailbox.UnixMailbox(mb, email.message_from_file)
 
+    def strip_re(subject):
+        return re.sub("^Re:\s*", "", subject)
+
     def sort_mails(a, b):
         # Sort by Subject: as well
-        #ret = cmp(a['subject'], b['subject'])
+        #ret = cmp(strip_re(a['subject']), strip_re(b['subject']))
         #if ret: return ret
 
         a_time = mktime_tz(parsedate_tz(a['date']))

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com