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I came up with something to parse some mbox-format email files out of boredom. The final step, coming later, is taking the data and making a line graph out of it. I’m sure it can be done a lot better, but at any rate, may I present the beginnings of mail-graph.py

import mailbox
import sys
import os

months = {'Jan': '01', 'Feb': '02', 'Mar': '03',
		  'Apr': '04', 'May': '05', 'Jun': '06',
          'Jul': '07', 'Aug': '08', 'Sep': '09',
		  'Oct': '10', 'Nov': '11', 'Dec': '12'}
emails = {}
total = 0

def accumulate_counts(email):
	for message in email:
		date = message['date']
		split_date = date.split()
		day = split_date[1]
		month = split_date[2]
		year = split_date[3]
		monthnum = months.get(month, 0)
		yearmonth = year + monthnum

		count = emails.get(yearmonth, 0)
		if (count == 0):
			emails[yearmonth] = 1
		else:
			emails[yearmonth] += 1

mbox_path = sys.argv[1]

for root, dirs, fileNames in os.walk(mbox_path):
	for fileName in fileNames:
		path = os.path.join(root, fileName)

		mbox = mailbox.mbox(path)
		accumulate_counts(mbox)

for m, e in emails.iteritems():
	print m, e
	total += e

print total

Comments are welcome, just be gentle. I know some variables are short, but I’ll fix that up on the next iteration

I’m becoming a little annoyed with Emacs now. While it’s been pretty ok to use on a day-to-day basis for notes and other text chores, getting down and actually coding with it is quite, at least to me, annoying. My biggest problem is auto-indent. I can’t seem to shut this feature off to save my life, and it drives me insane. It seems to vary depending on the mode I’m in (php, python, etc), and the modes seem to override the settings in my .emacs file. While I do enjoy planner mode, the coding side of Emacs is basically annoying the heck out of me right now, and with what I’m working on, I’m thinking an IDE is going to suit me better in the long run. I may find the exact formula to change the behavior, but lately I’m not all that interested in that, rather than finding what’s going to be the most comfortable setup for me.