On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:46:29 +0100, Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chm.duquesne at gmail.com> wrote: > > Alternatively, you could use the python bindings to libnotmuch and call > > the functions directly. You could do that in a unthreaded or threaded > > fashion... > > I've had a look to the python libnotmuch documentation. My problem > with this API is that, unless I did not read it correctly, if I use > one of its functions in a threaded fashion, I still have to wait for > this function to finish until I get results. When using the command > line tool, I can process the text as it gets printed on stdout, and I > have data to show to the user even though notmuch has not finished to > output it...
Well, you have to wait until the "search_messages()" function returns and once it does you can output text as you go, by iterating through the threads/mails. I am not sure that the command line client is any faster as that with it's interactive output. But I haven't investigated the performance closely. Sebastian
