Bugs item #777884, was opened at 2003-07-25 20:22 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by akuchling You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=777884&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: XML Group: Python 2.3 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Mark Lesh (leshmark) Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake) Summary: minidom.py -- TypeError: object doesn't support slice assig Initial Comment: Got the following traceback after upgrading to 2.3c1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy_menu.py", line 178, in menu_system a=alchemy.Alchemy(name=name,step='alchemy') File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 89, in __init__ self.traverseNodes([self.start_node],exclude_tags=["evaporate","info"]) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 786, in traverseNodes self.traverseNodes(node.childNodes,exclude_tags) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 786, in traverseNodes self.traverseNodes(node.childNodes,exclude_tags) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 786, in traverseNodes self.traverseNodes(node.childNodes,exclude_tags) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 786, in traverseNodes self.traverseNodes(node.childNodes,exclude_tags) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 786, in traverseNodes self.traverseNodes(node.childNodes,exclude_tags) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 786, in traverseNodes self.traverseNodes(node.childNodes,exclude_tags) File "/root/alchemy/scripts/cvs/alchemy/alchemy.py", line 766, in traverseNodes node.normalize() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 208, in normalize self.childNodes[:] = L TypeError: object doesn't support slice assignment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) Date: 2005-11-22 16:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11375 I can trigger this exception by calling the normalize() method on a childless DOM node such as Text. A little script is attached. The question is: what should normalize() do for a class such as Text? Looking at the DOM Level 1 specification, .normalize() is actually part of the Element interface, not Node, so things like Text.normalize() wouldn't work at all. One solution: move normalize() onto the Element class. Possibly backwards-incompatible. Another solution: add a normalize() method to the Childless mix-in that raises an exception. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2003-08-01 03:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 It would definitely help if you could provide more detail on the nature of the failure. E.g. where did the DOM tree come from that Alchemy tries to invoke .normalize on, and what is self.childnodes in the place of the error. If you could instead submit a small example that allows reproduction of the error, that would help as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Lesh (leshmark) Date: 2003-08-01 02:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=76540 The code worked again after I downgraded to Python 2.2.3. If you like I can replicate in a shorter and includable code snippet (I'd need to pop 2.3 back on my box first though) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2003-07-27 07:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Are you sure this is a bug in Python, and not in Alchemy? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=777884&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com