Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A8B431FBD for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:25:11 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.502 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.502 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f5QU6EurOqYy for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7D63431FAF for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Tlv-0007aN-5l for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:25:03 +0100 Received: from AFontenayssB-152-1-15-159.w82-121.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.121.109.159]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:25:03 +0100 Received: from mattator by AFontenayssB-152-1-15-159.w82-121.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:25:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org From: Matt Subject: Re: Python bindings and Xapian exceptions Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <87k4q7s43v.fsf@ut.hh.sledj.net> <878w6gis5g.fsf@SSpaeth.de> <871v70ril7.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <871v70z0y5.fsf@SSpaeth.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 82.121.109.159 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0) X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:25:11 -0000 > > But for exceptions in general, yes the notmuch library does need to be > > fixed to allow the caller of functions to distinguish between things > > like "no matches found" and "an exception occurred, so it's unknown if > > any messages match the search". That's a general class of library > > interface bugs that all need to be fixed. I 've also hit this *API bug* and was wondering if a fix had been done since then (I use notmuch 0.17) ? I found nothing on http://notmuchmail.org/news/