use __unicode__ for string representation

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/message.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/message.py
index 6ee5ec95..a9ded801 100644
--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/message.py
+++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/message.py
@@ -796,12 +796,14 @@ class Message(object):
         return self.__str__()
 
     def __str__(self):
-        """A message() is represented by a 1-line summary"""
-        msg = {}
-        msg['from'] = self.get_header('from')
-        msg['tags'] = self.get_tags()
-        msg['date'] = date.fromtimestamp(self.get_date())
-        return "%(from)s (%(date)s) (%(tags)s)" % (msg)
+        return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
+
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        format = "%(from)s (%(date)s) (%(tags)s)"
+        return format % (self.get_header('from'),
+                         self.get_tags(),
+                         date.fromtimestamp(self.get_date()),
+                        )
 
     def get_message_parts(self):
         """Output like notmuch show"""