Re: [PATCH v3] nmbug: Translate to Python

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+From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nmbug: Translate to Python\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> > +__version__ =3D '0.2'\r
+>>=20\r
+>> Do we need/want a version distinct from that of notmuch?\r
+>\r
+> nmbug is very loosely bound to the notmuch core.  To me it feels like\r
+> a separate project that happens to share the same version control\r
+> repository.  I'm happy to synchronize versions, but then we have to\r
+> remember to bump the nmbug version for each notmuch release.\r
+\r
+Unless/until we split nmbug from notmuch I'd rather keep the versions\r
+the same to avoid confusion.  I guess the "right way" (TM) would be\r
+share the hackery used in doc/conf.py to parse the version file and use\r
+it from python.\r
+\r
+>> as a non-native speaker of python, I find this a bit hard to read.\r
+>> How about adding some parens to make the multiple return more clear,\r
+>> so\r
+>>=20\r
+>>     (status, tree, stderr) =3D _git(\r
+>\r
+> That's legal, but I rarely see the parenthesized version in the wild.\r
+> For examples showing the unparenthesized version, see [2,3].\r
+> Parentheses are optional for Python tuples [4], so you'd only want\r
+> them if =E2=80=98=3D=E2=80=99 had a higher precedence than =E2=80=98,=E2=\r
+=80=99.  That's my argument for\r
+> the unparenthesized version, but feel free to overrule me ;).\r
+\r
+I'd rather go with readability (which I admit is subjective) then try to\r
+minimize parens. We're lisp programmers, after all ;).\r