Well, the docs you link say slicing should be done via __getitem__ now. Which is also present in dicts of course.
Why not approach the problem from the other direction? try: maybedict.keys() except AttributeError: ismapping = True else: ismapping = False ? On 7/25/07, Catherine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whoops! Never mind; deprecation is a really good reason. > > http://docs.python.org/ref/sequence-methods.html > __getslice__( self, i, j) > Deprecated since release 2.0. > > The trouble is (and, sorry, this is getting beyond SQLAlchemy- > specific), that leaves me without any good ideas for how to > distinguish sequence types (lists, tuples, and user-defined objects > resembling them) from mappings (dicts). > > Also, I don't need to at present, but it still leaves it impossible to > take a slice from a RowProxy. It seems possibly useful. > > resultrow[1:2] > TypeError: unhashable type > > So, for the moment, I'm looking into whether I could write a patch for > that, then try-and-catch to do my duck typing. If you know a reason > RowProxy's -shouldn't- support slicing, say so! > > - Catherine > http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
