Re: Python bindings and Xapian exceptions

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+Subject: Re: Python bindings and Xapian exceptions\r
+Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:19:22 +0000 (UTC)\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
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+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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