From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FBA431FBC for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:28:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PUmn7IoD0ivt for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cryptobitch.de (cryptobitch.de [88.198.7.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DFB9431FBF for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.jade-hamburg.de (mail.jade-hamburg.de [85.183.11.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cryptobitch.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5ED6B6211B9 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:28:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.jade-hamburg.de (Postfix, from userid 401) id C0E0EDF2A3; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:28:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de (thinkbox.jadE-Hamburg.de [10.1.1.109]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: teythoon) by mail.jade-hamburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24BA7DF28B; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:28:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from teythoon by thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1USm3l-0003HZ-GK; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:27:21 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> User-Agent: alot/0.3.3+ To: Flavius Aspra , notmuch@notmuchmail.org References: <20130418081137.GA598@evolution> In-Reply-To: <20130418081137.GA598@evolution> Message-ID: <20130418102721.10489.1439@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de> Subject: Re: Python analogous for the CLI command Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:27:21 +0200 X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:28:37 -0000 Hi Flavius :) welcome to notmuch :) Quoting Flavius Aspra (2013-04-18 10:11:37) > Can you give me some pointers on how to use the python module to get the = JSON > data with notmuch effort, equivalent to the command: ^^^^^^^ hehe :) Ok, here it is: teythoon@thinkbox ~/tmp % cat flavius.py import notmuch db =3D notmuch.Database() q =3D db.create_query('from:Flavius') for m in q.search_messages(): print(m) for t in q.search_threads(): for m in t.get_toplevel_messages(): print(m) teythoon@thinkbox ~/tmp % python3 flavius.py Flavius Aspra (inbox lists notmuch signed) (2013-04-= 18) Flavius Aspra (inbox lists notmuch signed) (2013-04-= 18) There once was a json encoder that produced something similar to notmuch show --format=3Djson, but that was there only to be used by a python version of the notmuch cli binary. That was unmaintained and apparently unused, I removed it and the json encoder some time ago. If you absolutely need json, put the result in some suitable data structure and use pythons json module to encode it. > Some key classes and methods would be helpful. From the documentation of = the > python code, I couldn't find indications about any of the parameters like > --entire-thread and --format. Have you seen http://notmuch.readthedocs.org ? Also, if you want to see some code that uses the python bindings, go to github.com/pazz/alot (nice MUA written in python, but it's huge) or github.com/teythoon/afew (tagging solution, tiny codebase compared to alot). Good luck :) Justus btw: cool name ;)