Re: Python bindings and Xapian exceptions

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Matt <mattator@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: Python bindings and Xapian exceptions\r
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+Matt <mattator@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+>> > But for exceptions in general, yes the notmuch library does need to be\r
+>> > fixed to allow the caller of functions to distinguish between things\r
+>> > like "no matches found" and "an exception occurred, so it's unknown if\r
+>> > any messages match the search". That's a general class of library\r
+>> > interface bugs that all need to be fixed.\r
+>\r
+> I 've also hit this *API bug* and was wondering if a fix had been done since\r
+> then (I use notmuch 0.17) ? I found nothing on http://notmuchmail.org/news/ \r
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+Can you be more specific? I'd say in general no thorough overhaul of\r
+error handling has happened, but if you can tell us what particular\r
+libnotmuch function (or the equivalient python binding) you are having\r
+trouble with, we may be able to give a more informative answer.\r
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+d\r