On Sat, May 14, 2022, 7:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

class yamf:
def __init__(self, host, port, user, pw, imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL):
self.imap = imap(host, port)
self.imap.login(user, pw)
print(self.imap.welcome.decode())

# this is how far I am

(Pdb) p imap.list(directory='""',pattern='Sent')

('OK', [b'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent"'])

commands are returned as a tuple of status and data, which here is an array

list responses are bytes values containing a quoted, space-separated 3-tuple.