python: fix error handling

Before 3434d1940 the return values of libnotmuch functions were
declared as c_void_p and the code checking for errors compared the
returned value to None, which is the ctypes equivalent of a NULL
pointer.

But said commit wrapped all the data types in python classes and the
semantic changed in a subtle way. If a function returns NULL, the
wrapped python value is falsish, but no longer equal to None.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/thread.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/thread.py
index e81ff1bd..104710c4 100644
--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/thread.py
+++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/thread.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class Threads(Python3StringMixIn):
         :TODO: Make the iterator work more than once and cache the tags in
                the Python object.(?)
         """
-        if threads_p is None:
+        if not threads_p:
             raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NULL_POINTER)
 
         self._threads = threads_p
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ class Thread(object):
               automatically delete the parent object once all derived
               objects are dead.
         """
-        if thread_p is None:
+        if not thread_p:
             raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NULL_POINTER)
         self._thread = thread_p
         #keep reference to parent, so we keep it alive
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ class Thread(object):
 
         msgs_p = Thread._get_toplevel_messages(self._thread)
 
-        if msgs_p is None:
+        if not msgs_p:
             raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NULL_POINTER)
 
         return Messages(msgs_p, self)