From: Sebastian Spaeth Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:39:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: python: Encode query string as a utf-8 byte array X-Git-Tag: 0.7_rc1~15 X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=504b6242d1fd67d04ee236fc92a54ca39fd682f7 python: Encode query string as a utf-8 byte array If we pass in an unicode instance as query string, we would probably get weird behavior (and indeed do so, see mail id:"20110707113700.GA16347@megatron"). If a unicode instance is passed in, make sure we encode it properly to an utf-8 encoded byte string. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth --- diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py index 3770b132..84cf79bb 100644 --- a/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py +++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ class Query(object): :param db: An open database which we derive the Query from. :type db: :class:`Database` :param querystr: The query string for the message. - :type querystr: str + :type querystr: utf-8 encoded str or unicode """ self._db = None self._query = None @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ class Query(object): :param db: Database to create the query from. :type db: :class:`Database` :param querystr: The query string - :type querystr: str + :type querystr: utf-8 encoded str or unicode :returns: Nothing :exception: :exc:`NotmuchError` @@ -529,7 +529,9 @@ class Query(object): raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED) # create reference to parent db to keep it alive self._db = db - + if isinstance(querystr, unicode): + # xapian takes utf-8 encoded byte arrays + querystr = querystr.encode('utf-8') # create query, return None if too little mem available query_p = Query._create(db.db_p, querystr) if query_p is None: