From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:42:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix suggested by movits@lockstar.com (plus doc string by myself)
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a2~326
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6ae743cb53a2953c7fb063963ec48029206c8b0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix suggested by movits@lockstar.com (plus doc string by myself)
for LIST command with msg argument.
---

diff --git a/Lib/poplib.py b/Lib/poplib.py
index 2539892e64a6..0f588c15f10d 100644
--- a/Lib/poplib.py
+++ b/Lib/poplib.py
@@ -196,14 +196,17 @@ class POP3:
 		return (numMessages, sizeMessages)
 
 
-	def list(self, which=None):
+	def list(self, msg=None):
 		"""Request listing, return result.
-		Result is in form ['response', ['mesg_num octets', ...]].
 
-		Unsure what the optional 'msg' arg does.
+		Result without a msg argument is in form
+		['response', ['mesg_num octets', ...]].
+
+		Result when a msg argument is given is a single response:
+		the "scan listing" for that message.
 		"""
 		if which:
-			return self._longcmd('LIST %s' % which)
+			return self._shortcmd('LIST %s' % which)
 		return self._longcmd('LIST')