[PATCH 1/3] NEWS: add entry for python error handling fix

Justus Winter 4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Sun Jan 29 09:08:51 PST 2012


Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
---
 NEWS |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2acdce5..bee6f2e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ New functions
   notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
   feature.
 
+Python bindings changes
+-----------------------
+
+Fix error handling in python bindings.
+
+  The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
+  returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
+  exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
+  into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
+
 Build fixes
 -----------
 
-- 
1.7.8.3



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