python: rename _verify_initialized_db to _assert_db_is_initialized

Rename the function to clarify its effect and remove all the comments
accompanying each call to the function.

Modified slightly by Sebastian Spaeth to catch all new instances and
remove some blank lines too.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py
index bafe497e..a19dd596 100644
--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py
+++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/database.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class Database(object):
         else:
             self.create(path)
 
-    def _verify_initialized_db(self):
+    def _assert_db_is_initialized(self):
         """Raises a NotmuchError in case self._db is still None"""
         if self._db is None:
             raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED)
@@ -165,9 +165,7 @@ class Database(object):
         """Returns the file path of an open database
 
         Wraps *notmuch_database_get_path*."""
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         return Database._get_path(self._db).decode('utf-8')
 
     def get_version(self):
@@ -177,9 +175,7 @@ class Database(object):
         :exception: :exc:`NotmuchError` with STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED if
                     the database was not intitialized.
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         return Database._get_version(self._db)
 
     def needs_upgrade(self):
@@ -194,9 +190,7 @@ class Database(object):
         :exception: :exc:`NotmuchError` with STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED if
                     the database was not intitialized.
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         return nmlib.notmuch_database_needs_upgrade(self._db)
 
     def upgrade(self):
@@ -214,9 +208,7 @@ class Database(object):
 
         :TODO: catch exceptions, document return values and etc...
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         status = Database._upgrade(self._db, None, None)
         #TODO: catch exceptions, document return values and etc
         return status
@@ -236,8 +228,7 @@ class Database(object):
 
                         A Xapian exception occurred; atomic section not
                         entered."""
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         status = nmlib.notmuch_database_begin_atomic(self._db)
         if status != STATUS.SUCCESS:
             raise NotmuchError(status)
@@ -257,8 +248,7 @@ class Database(object):
                     ended.
                 STATUS.UNBALANCED_ATOMIC:
                     end_atomic has been called more times than begin_atomic."""
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         status = nmlib.notmuch_database_end_atomic(self._db)
         if status != STATUS.SUCCESS:
             raise NotmuchError(status)
@@ -286,9 +276,7 @@ class Database(object):
                     components same as database.
 
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         # sanity checking if path is valid, and make path absolute
         if path[0] == os.sep:
             # we got an absolute path
@@ -357,9 +345,7 @@ class Database(object):
               STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED
                       The database has not been initialized.
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         msg_p = c_void_p()
         status = nmlib.notmuch_database_add_message(self._db,
                                                   _str(filename),
@@ -404,9 +390,7 @@ class Database(object):
              STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED
                The database has not been initialized.
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         return nmlib.notmuch_database_remove_message(self._db,
                                                        filename)
 
@@ -428,9 +412,7 @@ class Database(object):
         :exception: :exc:`NotmuchError` with STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED if
                   the database was not intitialized.
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         msg_p = Database._find_message(self._db, _str(msgid))
         return msg_p and Message(msg_p, self) or None
 
@@ -444,7 +426,7 @@ class Database(object):
                 * No message is found with the given filename
                 * An out-of-memory situation occurs
                 * A Xapian exception occurs"""
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         msg_p = Database._find_message_by_filename(self._db, _str(filename))
         return msg_p and Message(msg_p, self) or None
 
@@ -454,9 +436,7 @@ class Database(object):
         :returns: :class:`Tags`
         :execption: :exc:`NotmuchError` with STATUS.NULL_POINTER on error
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         tags_p = Database._get_all_tags(self._db)
         if tags_p == None:
             raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NULL_POINTER)
@@ -480,9 +460,7 @@ class Database(object):
 
         This function is a python extension and not in the underlying C API.
         """
-        # Raise a NotmuchError if not initialized
-        self._verify_initialized_db()
-
+        self._assert_db_is_initialized()
         return Query(self, querystring)
 
     def __repr__(self):