sqlite3.Row doesn't support sequence protocol

[pfalcon]

BPO	10203
Nosy	@malemburg, @pfalcon, @pitrou, @merwok, @PCManticore, @serhiy-storchaka, @vajrasky
Files	sqlite1.patch sqlite2.patch issue10203.patch issue10203_1.patch issue10203_2.patch

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title = "sqlite3.Row doesn't support sequence protocol"
updated_at = <Date 2014-05-28.10:06:50.383>
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[pfalcon]

sqlite.Row class doesn't implement sequence protocol, which is rather unfortunate, because it is described and expected to work like a tuple, with extra mapping-like functionality.

Specific issue I hit:

Adding rows to PyGTK ListStore,

        model = gtk.ListStore(*db.getSchema())
        for r in listGen():
            model.append(r)

I get:

TypeError: expecting a sequence

Looking at PyGTK sources, append() method uses PySequence Check() on the argument. Looking at Python 2.6.5 abstract.c:

int
PySequence_Check(PyObject *s)
{
        if (s && PyInstance_Check(s))
                return PyObject_HasAttrString(s, "__getitem__");
        if (PyObject_IsInstance(s, (PyObject *)&PyDict_Type))
                return 0;
        return s != NULL && s->ob_type->tp_as_sequence &&
                s->ob_type->tp_as_sequence->sq_item != NULL;
}

And sqlite3.Row doesn't set ob_type->tp_as_sequence as of Py 2.6.5 or 2.7.

[merwok]

Hello Paul, thanks for the report. The doc only describe Row as a tuple-like object, but tuple does implement the Sequence ABC, so I’m inclined to agree with you this is a bug and not a feature request (my first reaction).

Adding Georg, the maintainer of the module, to the nosy list (found his username in Misc/maintainers.rst).

[merwok]

(Gerhard, sorry, not well awake :)

[malemburg]

Just as data point: the DB-API 2.0 requires that the row objects returned by the various .fetch*() methods are sequences, i.e. they need to implement the sequence protocol.

[PCManticore]

Hello! Here's a simple patch which makes sqlite.Row to act like a real sequence.

[merwok]

Patch looks good! Are documentation changes needed?

[PCManticore]

I guess not, the documentation already states that Row tries to mimic a tuple in most of its features. Probably a MISC/News entry is required.

[vajrasky]

I got warning in compiling your patch:

gcc -pthread -fPIC -Wno-unused-result -Werror=declaration-after-statement -g -O0 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DMODULE_NAME="sqlite3" -DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION=1 -IModules/_sqlite -I/usr/include -I./Include -I. -IInclude -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/local/include -I/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython3.4/Include -I/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython3.4 -c /home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython3.4/Modules/_sqlite/row.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4-pydebug/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython3.4/Modules/_sqlite/row.o
/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython3.4/Modules/_sqlite/row.c:212:28: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython3.4/Modules/_sqlite/row.c:212:28: warning: (near initialization for ‘pysqlite_row_as_sequence.sq_item’) [enabled by default]

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2

[PCManticore]

Thanks, Vajrasky! Here's an updated patch.

[PCManticore]

What can be done to move this forward?

[BreamoreBoy]

I've changed the versions, hope I've got them correct.

[merwok]

Thanks Mark. There will be a last 3.3 release with bugfixes before it switches to security fixes only.

[merwok]

I would like another core developer more intimate with C to review the patch.