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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Vincent A <dev@indigo.re>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] python: fix get_property error when property doesn't exist
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:45:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eejlj0i.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab48b6e8-3689-4fcb-5e2d-3eaac2c22012@indigo.re>

Vincent A <dev@indigo.re> writes:

> In Python bindings, Message.get_property fails with an AttributeError 
> when trying to fetch a property that doesn't exist.

> -        return value.value.decode('utf-8') if value is not None else None
> +        if value is None or value.value is None:
> +            return None
> +        return value.value.decode('utf-8')
>  

Should we be throwing an appropriate exception rather than returning
None? That seems more pythonic to me. In either case we should document
the error handling.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-01 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-27  8:40 [PATCH] python: fix get_property error when property doesn't exist Vincent A
2019-02-01 13:45 ` David Bremner [this message]
2019-02-06 19:24   ` VA
2019-02-17 11:19     ` David Bremner
2019-02-18 19:29       ` Tomi Ollila
2019-02-21 11:23 ` David Bremner

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