Hi Patrick, Sorry for the very late reply; I got distracted with some personal matters. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Patrick Totzke wrote: > Hey Suvayu, welcome to notmuch! > > I hope you are aware that there are already a few search based abook tools > around for notmuch (listed in the wiki, albeit hidden in the emacs docs): > http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index14h2 > I personally use nottoomuch-addresses.sh, which apparently does some advanced > caching voodoo for speed. > I wasn't aware of either of them, thanks for pointing them out. I'll take a look for inspiration and ideas. > But to your tool; practice test: > I wasn't able to use wildcards or simply prefixes of names. This is essential > if you want to use it for tabcompleting contacts in a MUA. Since the idea was inspired by the completion on the Gmail web interface, I already do a partial search so wildcards should not be necessary. > The time lookups take seems to depend on how many matches there are: > > ------------------------------- > time nbook Suvayu > 1 unique email addresses found for `Suvayu' > fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com Suvayu Ali > > nbook Suvayu 0.04s user 0.01s system 95% cpu 0.050 total > ------------------------------- > time nbook Justus > ... > > nbook Justus 0.21s user 0.07s system 11% cpu 2.484 total > ------------------------------- Yes, I noticed this too when I searched for the more common names. Not sure how to get around this though. > And If I look for my own name, this takes over a minute, > eventually dying. This could be an issue with libnotmuch though. > Possibly, your algorithm takes very long and then reads from an initially > opened Database object again, which was invalidated by concurrent writes of other processes.. > > ------------------------------- > [~] time nbook Patrick > > Error opening /home/pazz/mail/gmail/[Google Mail].All Mail/cur/1330682270_0.12958.megatron,U=8766,FMD5=66ff6a8bc18a8a3ac4b311daa93d358a:2,S: Too many open files > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/pazz/bin/nbook", line 167, in <module> > File "/home/pazz/bin/nbook", line 71, in __init__ > File "/home/pazz/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/notmuch/message.py", line 233, in get_header > notmuch.errors.NullPointerError > Error in sys.excepthook: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 66, in apport_excepthook > ImportError: No module named fileutils > > Original exception was: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/pazz/bin/nbook", line 167, in <module> > File "/home/pazz/bin/nbook", line 71, in __init__ > File "/home/pazz/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/notmuch/message.py", line 233, in get_header > notmuch.errors.NullPointerError > nbook Patrick 3.20s user 5.47s system 12% cpu 1:11.65 total > ------------------------------------ > Yes someone else pointed this out too. Again I'm not sure how to proceed here. I had a quick look at this last week and it seemed to me the limitation comes from within the python bindings for notmuch. Do you have any ideas? > Anyway, have fun hacking notmuch! If you are looking for a related project to bring in your python skills > I could think of one or two :D That would be wonderful. To give you my background, I'm a graduate student in physics and I have to do a lot of C/C++ and python programming for my research. Contributing to FOSS projects seems like a wonderful way to learn to collaborate and clean programming (we physicists tend to be sloppy programmers :-p). > Best, > /p Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.