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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] use notmuch_database_open_verbose\r
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:\r
+\r
+>> - """notmuch_database_open"""\r
+>> - _open = nmlib.notmuch_database_open\r
+>> + """notmuch_database_open_verbose"""\r
+>> + _open = nmlib.notmuch_database_open_verbose\r
+>> _open.argtypes = [c_char_p, c_uint, POINTER(NotmuchDatabaseP)]\r
+>> _open.restype = c_uint\r
+>\r
+> I expect you probably want to add the new binding, rather than replacing\r
+> the old one. Otherwise updating the bindings will break all bindings\r
+> using scripts.\r
+\r
+Oh silly me. That's not actually exposed to the python API, so that's\r
+fine. On the other hand, don't you want to update the argument types and\r
+do something useful (throw an exception?) with the returned message? As\r
+it stands you lose information.\r
+\r
+d\r