The way we use `InvalidQueryArgumentTypeError` is more akin to a `ValueError` than a `TypeError`. For example, we try to parse a string as an int, float, or date, but the parsing fails - there was nothing wrong with the type of the variable (string), but its contents were not parseable into the type we wanted - there was a problem with the value of the string.
This was a vestige from when we used to need the unittest2 library for pre-2.7
compatibility. Now that we require Python 2.7, we aren't using that library
and this indirection wasn't doing any good.
Match ordinary beets behavior by storing normalized paths in the
database. This matters on Windows, where normalization adds backslashes
and drive letters.
This reverts commit 9c41c39913.
That commit used byte strings for the `if __name__ == '__main__'` pattern,
which was necessary when we were doing unicode_literals. But it is wrong on
Python 3, and now that we're liberated from unicode_literals, we need to go
back to native strings for this comparison.
* Add changelog and query.rst documentation entries for the usage of negated
queries.
* Cleanup NotQuery class as suggested during code review (PEP conforming
docstring, clarification on empty clause match behaviour).
* Revise the NotQuery syntax, replacing the '¬' character with '^'. Fix tests
to conform to this change, and cleanup the PARSE_QUERY_PART_REGEX.
* Modify parse_query_part() docstring to mention the negate parameter on the
returned tuple, and added an example.
* Add tests to NotQueryTest for testing the results of using queries with
negation.
* Fix issue on test_dbcore due to the modifications on the tuple returned by
parse_query_part (the number of elements was changed from 3 to 4).
* Modify NotQuery so it subclasses Query instead of MutableCollectionQuery.
* Update instances where NotQuery objects are created on tests and queryparse,
as NotQuery expects a single Query as a parameter to the constructor instead of
a list of Queries.
* Add support for user friendly "not" operator in queries without requiring to
use regular expressions, via adding NotQuery to beets.dbcore.query.
* Update the prefix list at library.parse_query_parts() and the query parsing
mechanisms in order to create a NotQuery when the prefix is found.
* Add two TestCases, NotQueryMatchTest as the negated version of MatchTest, and
the more generic NotQueryTest for testing the integration of the NotQuery with
the rest of the existing Query subclasses.
