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Mueen Nawaz <mueen@nawaz.org> writes:

>
> DATABASE = notmuch.Database(mode=notmuch.Database.MODE.READ_WRITE)

OK. So your code is locking the database, and never unlocking it
(because of the hang). So that part is at least not mysterious.

> I can think of two experiments:

I was thinking more along the lines of something that could be part of
the notmuch test suite, i.e. run in a few seconds. Or at worst in 10
minutes or so to be usable to debug.

d