On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:46:29 +0100, Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chm.duquesne@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had a look to the python libnotmuch documentation. My problem > with this API is that, unless I did not read it correctly, if I use > one of its functions in a threaded fashion, I still have to wait for > this function to finish until I get results. The search function should return very quickly (ore pretty close to that anyway). It's only when you start iterating through the results that there's a lot of time being spent in the library functions. > When using the command > line tool, I can process the text as it gets printed on stdout, and I > have data to show to the user even though notmuch has not finished to > output it... This functionality of the command-line tool is implemented with the same library functions you would call. So you should get exactly the same behavior that you want by calling the library directly. Please let us know if that's not the case. -Carl -- carl.d.worth@intel.com