On 03/05/12 11:04, Jan Urbański wrote:
> On 02/05/12 20:18, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> This doesn't work anymore with Python 3:
>>
>> rv = plpy.execute(...)
>> do_something(rv[0:1])
>>
>> Apparently, they changed the C API for doing slicing, or rather made one
>> of the two APIs for it silently do nothing. Details are difficult to
>> find, but this email message seems to contain something:
>> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-August/009851.html>.
>>
>> I'll try to sort this out sometime, but if someone wants to take a shot
>> at it, go ahead.
>
> Sounds ugly. I'll take a look.
I found some instructions on how to deal with the Python 2/Python 3
slicing mess:
http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/07/python3-c-api-simple-slicing-sqslice.html
Apparently you need that egregious hack in order to avoid code
duplication. I'll try to produce a patch over the weekend.
Cheers,
Jan
