Python in a Nutshell

Name

group

Synopsis

                        n.group(group_name)

Makes group_name the current group, and returns a tuple of five strings ( response,count,first,last,group_name ), where count is the total number of articles in the group, last is the number of the most recent article, first is the number of the oldest article, and group_name is the group’s name. Normally, the group_name that is the last item in the returned tuple will be the same as the one you requested (i.e., the argument to n .group). However, an NNTP server could conceivably set up aliases, or synonyms; therefore, you should always check the last item of the returned tuple to ascertain what newsgroup has been in fact set as the current one.