# -*- python -*-
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"""Start interacting with a mailing list.

This is useful for playing with a list from Python's interactive interpreter.
Run this script as follows:

% python -i bin/withlist <listname> [locked?]

This will load the list object named by <listname> into an object called `m'
in the global namespace.  It also loads the class MailList into the global
namespace.

If second argument is given, the list will be locked (the value of the
argument is ignored).

"""

import sys
import paths
from Mailman.MailList import MailList

m = None
try:
    listname = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
    print "Warning: no listname given.  `m' will be None."
else:
    locked = 0
    try:
        sys.argv[2]
        locked = 1
    except IndexError:
        pass
    print 'Loading list:', listname, '(%s)' % (locked and 'locked' or
                                               'unlocked')
    m = MailList(listname, lock=locked)