return self.args[0]
else:
return STATUS.status2str(self.args[1])
+
+def _str(value):
+ """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
+
+ C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
+ unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
+ if not isinstance(value, basestring):
+ raise TypeError("Expected str or unicode, got %s" % str(type(value)))
+ if isinstance(value, unicode):
+ return value.encode('UTF-8')
+ return value
+