From: Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be>
To: "Jorge P. de Morais Neto" <jorge+list@disroot.org>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: New Python bindings (notmuch2 module) fail to exclude tags
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:17:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh3b99kb.fsf@powell.devork.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1oohvm0.fsf@disroot.org>
Hi Jorge,
On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 12:54 -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to migrate my Python3 script to the new Python bindings
> (notmuch2 module). However, I cannot obtain a count of messages
> matching a query excluding messages that have an exclude tag. From the
> command line:
> $ notmuch count 'is:.bf_spam'
> 0
>
> The CLI command correctly counts zero messages having '.bf_spam' tag,
> because all such messages also have the excluded 'spam' tag. But from
> Python:
>
> $ python3
> Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44)
> [GCC 8.3.0] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import notmuch2
>>>> nm_db=notmuch2.Database()
>>>> nm_db.count_messages('is:.bf_spam', exclude_tags=('spam',))
> 379
>>>> nm_db.count_messages('is:.bf_spam', exclude_tags=('spam',), omit_excluded=nm_db.EXCLUDE.FALSE)
> 379
>>>> nm_db.count_messages('is:.bf_spam', exclude_tags=('spam',), omit_excluded=nm_db.EXCLUDE.TRUE)
> 379
>>>> nm_db.count_messages('is:.bf_spam', exclude_tags=('spam',), omit_excluded=nm_db.EXCLUDE.ALL)
> 379
>>>> nm_db.count_messages('is:.bf_spam', exclude_tags=('spam',), omit_excluded=nm_db.EXCLUDE.FLAG)
> 379
Personally I find the description of these flags in notmuch.h not very
clear and don't claim to understand them (this probably explains the
really bad docstring, we should improve those). But I expected to at
least see the EXCLUDE.TRUE one, the default, to work.
Looking at the implementation I don't seem much that could have gone
wrong. However I did notice the bindings fail to check the return code
in one call where it probably should, you could try with this patch?
diff --git a/bindings/python-cffi/notmuch2/_database.py b/bindings/python-cffi/notmuch2/_database.py
index 5ab0f20a..5dbfe68e 100644
--- a/bindings/python-cffi/notmuch2/_database.py
+++ b/bindings/python-cffi/notmuch2/_database.py
@@ -579,7 +579,10 @@ class Database(base.NotmuchObject):
for tag in exclude_tags:
if isinstance(tag, str):
tag = str.encode('utf-8')
- capi.lib.notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude(query_p, tag)
+ ret = capi.lib.notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude(query_p, tag)
+ if ret not in [capi.lib.NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS,
+ capi.lib.NOTMUCH_STATUS_IGNORED]:
+ raise errors.NotmuchError(ret)
return querymod.Query(self, query_p)
def messages(self, query, *,
To experiment you could also raise the exception for
NOTMUCH_STATUS_IGNORED, even though for the bindings to silently swallow
this is probably the best (this is really the bindings being more
limiting than the C lib, if this bothers ppl we could add another
keyword arg to let this raise as well).
While the above patch is probably good, I feel like it's clutching at
straws and unlikely to solve your problem. Could you try to reproduce
this in plain C or maybe even in pretend-plain-c by using the
capi.lib.notmuch_* calls directly?
Cheers,
Floris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-20 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-20 15:54 New Python bindings (notmuch2 module) fail to exclude tags Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-11-20 18:02 ` David Bremner
2020-11-20 18:17 ` Floris Bruynooghe [this message]
2020-11-21 21:51 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-11-24 22:33 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2020-11-25 11:07 ` David Bremner
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