Re: PL/Python result set slicing broken in Python 3

On 10/05/12 19:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On lör, 2012-05-05 at 22:45 +0200, Jan Urbański wrote:
>> Apparently once you implement PyMappingMethods.mp_subscript you can
>> drop PySequenceMethods.sq_slice, but I guess there's no harm in
>> keeping it (and I'm not sure it'd work on Python 2.3 with only
>> mp_subscript implemented).
>
> Committed this now.
>
> From test coverage reports, I now see that PLy_result_ass_item() is no
> longer called. That's probably OK, if assignments are now handled
> through the mapping methods. But should we remove the function then?

Have you tried on Python 2.3 as well? People on #python said that if you
implement the mapping functions, the sequence slicing functions are no
longer used, but maybe we should revisit for the next release, rather
than risk introducing a regression for the benefit of removing a few
dead lines.

Cheers,
Jan