Cannot lookup CVEs by name

[Kees Cook]

I was expecting "lp.cves" to work like "lp.people".

In [10]: lp.cves['CVE-2008-5079']
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TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)

./<ipython console> in <module>()

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/launchpadlib/resource.pyc in __getitem__(self, key)
    543 else:
    544 # Look up a single item by its position in the list.
--> 545 found_slice = self._get_slice(slice(key, key+1))
    546 if len(found_slice) != 1:
    547 raise IndexError("list index out of range")

TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

This actually requires a change to launchpadlib: you'll need to add a new resource CollectionWithKeyBasedLookup.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Can't this just use whatever getSeries(name_or_version=...) uses?

[Kees Cook (kees)]

In the meantime, I can work around this by using "load" directly, e.g.:
lp.load('https://api.edge.launchpad.net/beta/bugs/cve/2009-3001')

[Kees Cook (kees)]

This continues to be a rather annoying blocking. Can this at least get scheduled?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

I suggest you escalate via the stakeholder process - as you have a workaround the impact of this issue is quite limited in terms of number of users affected and potentially benefiting from a fix.