xapian exceptions not caught in python bindings?

[David Bremner]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:35:38 +0100, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke at googlemail.com> wrote:
> If you run the following snippet, you notice that not only do we get
> xapian-garbage on stderr but we don't really get any exceptions at the
> position where it would make sense:

I wouldn't call that "xapian-garbage" since it is output from
libnotmuch.

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