On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> Thanks to the helpful folk at #python I found out that the fix is much
> easier. Attached is a patch that fixes the bug and passes regression tests
> on Pythons 2.3 through 3.2.
>
> 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).
>
> Do we want to backpatch this? If so, I'd need to produce a version that
> applies to the monolithic plpython.c file from the previous releases.
Did this get forgotten about?
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