I cannot search sent emails in Gmail with Python

Question

I am trying to search for messages in the Sent (actually i care for both) but I only get incoming messages. For the time being i have

imap_conn.select()
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Answer 1

import imaplib
obj = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com',993)
obj.login('userid','password')
obj.select('Sent')  # <-- response like ('OK', ['74']) --> total no. of mail in sent folder
obj.uid('SEARCH',None,'All') # <-- Returns the list of uids of the sent folder.