On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One open question is how to translate arrays with non-default subscript > values > > Quote: "Subscripted assignment allows creation of arrays that do not use > one-based subscripts. For example one might assign to myarray[-2:7] to > create an array with subscript values running from -2 to 7." > > Should I just shift it to standard python tuple, or would it be better > to return it as a dictionary with keys from -2 to 7
I think changing the base type is bound to cause issues. For example, suppose someone expects to be able to simply iterate over the array. If they're assuming it's a list, they will expect the values to be returned. If it's a dictionary, the keys will be. If you're going to do that, you'd need to do a custom dict class that iterated over the values I think. David Blewett -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
