New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

[Justus Winter]

Hi Floris :)

Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> writes:

> This is exactly what I have fixed in my alternative bindings which I
> created around the end of last year [0].  So we do have an idea of how
> to fix this, at the time I said I do believe that it's possible to also
> do this for the existing bindings even though it is a lot of work.
> After some talking between dkg and me we got to a way forward which
> proposed this, but I must admit that after messing a little with getting
> a pytest run integrated into the notmuch test-suite instead of using tox
> I lost momentum on the project and didn't advance any further.

I'm sorry that I didn't speak up when you announced your work.  I'm
actually excited about a new set of bindings for Python.  I agree with
using cffi.  I briefly looked at the code, and I believe it is much
nicer than what we currently have.

I trust that it works fine with Python 3, does it?

The testsuite cannot depend on pulling stuff from the net simply because
build servers typically do not have access to it.  That is a hard
requirement.

I don't remember what kind of tests there are for the current bindings
(are there any...?), but shouldn't these just continue to work for the
time being?


Thanks,
Justus
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