Passing None to STATUS.status2str raises an ArgumentError. Add a check for this case and provide a generic message. Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> --- bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py index dd0c858..8b73f91 100644 --- a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py +++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py @@ -97,8 +97,10 @@ class NotmuchError(Exception): def __str__(self): if self.message is not None: return self.message - else: + elif self.status is not None: return STATUS.status2str(self.status) + else: + return 'Unknown error' def _str(value): """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch -- 1.7.6.3