Re: Python analogous for the CLI command

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: flavius.as@gmail.com, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: Python analogous for the CLI command\r
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+Flavius Aspra <flavius.as@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> Hi\r
+>\r
+> Can you give me some pointers on how to use the python module to get the JSON\r
+> data with notmuch effort, equivalent to the command:\r
+>\r
+>     notmuch show --entire-thread=true --format=json id:<id>\r
+>\r
+> ?\r
+>\r
+> Some key classes and methods would be helpful. From the documentation of the\r
+> python code, I couldn't find indications about any of the parameters like\r
+> --entire-thread and --format.\r
+\r
+I answered this on IRC, but for the archives, this is currently not\r
+possible directly because the json generation code (in fact all of the\r
+output formatting code) does not live in the library, which is what the\r
+bindings bind to.\r
+\r
+d\r