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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] python/thread: always return a string in
 get_subject/authors
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On Mon,  9 May 2011 09:06:34 +0200, Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net> wrote:
> Now None is returned when those don't exist, which is inconvenient to
> deal with.

I'm not using the python bindings, but from a philosophical point of
view, this change makes me a bit uncomfortable since it apparently
merges two cases together, and makes an error (no Subject)
indistinguishable from an odd situation (Subject of empty string).
Or am I missing something here?

All the best,

David