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+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>\r
+To: Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: [PATCH] notmuch.Database.remove_message should raise exception on\r
+ failure\r
+Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:53:46 -0500\r
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+The notmuch python bindings document that database.remove_message\r
+should raise an exception when the message removal fails, but they\r
+don't actually do it.\r
+---\r
+ bindings/python/notmuch/database.py | 5 ++++-\r
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py\r
+index 93e7b7a..f304533 100644\r
+--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py\r
++++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py\r
+@@ -483,7 +483,10 @@ class Database(object):\r
+ removed.\r
+ """\r
+ self._assert_db_is_initialized()\r
+- return self._remove_message(self._db, _str(filename))\r
++ status = self._remove_message(self._db, _str(filename))\r
++ if status not in [STATUS.SUCCESS, STATUS.DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID]:\r
++ raise NotmuchError(status)\r
++ return status\r
+ \r
+ def find_message(self, msgid):\r
+ """Returns a :class:`Message` as identified by its message ID\r
+-- \r
+2.7.0\r
+\r