My thunderbird newsgroup file (something like
.thunderbird-3.0/0gahkqdp.default/News/newsrc-news.gmane.org
) often
contains lines like:
gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel: 1-12428,12431-12446
There’s a two-article “hole” in there that shows up as two unread messages.
Yuck. And I got tired of removing those “holes” by hand. So I wrote a script
that converts 1-12428,12431-12446
to 1-12446
to remove the holes:
CONFIG_FILE = ('/home/reinout/.thunderbird-3.0/0gahkqdp.default/' +
'News/newsrc-news.gmane.org')
def fix_thunderbird():
"""Fix the thunderbird newsrc settings
The settings sometimes contain lines like::
gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel: 1-12428,12431-12446
There's a two-article 'hole' in there that shows up as two unread
messages. This script removes the holes.
"""
lines = [line.strip() for line in open(CONFIG_FILE).readlines()]
print "======= OLD ======="
for line in lines:
print line
print "======= NEW ======="
outfile = open(CONFIG_FILE, 'w')
for line in lines:
if not line:
continue
newsgroup, messages = line.split(': ')
parts = messages.split('-')
new = '%s: %s-%s\n' % (newsgroup,
parts[0],
parts[-1])
print new,
outfile.write(new)
outfile.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
fix_thunderbird()
Public domain, do with it what you like :-)
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