On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:36:02 +0100, Patrick Totzke wrote: > I hope the patch I send is correctly formated, I'm still fumbling with > git send-email and the --in-reply-to option. > Anyhow, forgive my language, of course I didn't mean to be condescending in any > way by calling these prints garbage! It's just that it's highly unusual and very > 'non-pythonic' that a module directly prints to stderr instead of raising exceptions > and if you work directly with a curseslike interface on a terminal these > errormessages litter my screen. Hi, 1) I fixed the lack of throwing a NotmuchError when search_threads() failed. This was a bug. 2) Taking over stderr and capturing it in a temporary file whenever we create a query sounds incredibly hackish to me. It also potentially has side-effects that I cannot even judge (we might be using stderr for something completely different). IMHO, libnotmuch should be modified to not directly print to stderr but to provide a string with a detailed error message together with it's status value. This would be the proper way to deal with it, even if it means a bit more complexity in the notmuch binary. Sebastian