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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-05-08 23:11:52 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-05-08 23:11:52 (GMT)
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Improve getting the mailbox from the environment.
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-rwxr-xr-xLib/mailbox.py10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/mailbox.py b/Lib/mailbox.py
index 36f58f5..2d0254e 100755
--- a/Lib/mailbox.py
+++ b/Lib/mailbox.py
@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ def _test():
args = sys.argv[1:]
if not args:
- if os.environ.has_key('MAIL'):
- mbox = os.environ['MAIL']
- elif os.environ.has_key('MAIL'):
- mbox = os.environ['USER']
+ for key in 'MAIL', 'LOGNAME', 'USER':
+ if os.environ.has_key(key):
+ mbox = os.environ[key]
+ break
else:
- print "Who are you?"
+ print "$MAIL, $LOGNAME nor $USER set -- who are you?"
return
else:
mbox = args[0]