[Python-Dev] getslice usage in sre_parse (original) (raw)

Sanghyeon Seo sanxiyn at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 05:34:51 CEST 2006


Hello,

Python language reference 3.3.6 deprecates getslice. I think it's okay that UserList.py has it, but sre_parse shouldn't use it, no?

getslice is not implemented in IronPython and this breaks usage of _sre.py, a pure-Python implementation of _sre, on IronPython: http://ubique.ch/code/_sre/

_sre.py is needed for me because IronPython's own regex implementation using underlying .NET implementation is not compatible enough for my applications. I will write a separate bug report for this.

It should be a matter of removing getslice and adding isinstance(index, slice) check in getitem. I would very much appreciate it if this is fixed before Python 2.5.

Seo Sanghyeon



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