series lookup via string gives horrible error

[Robert Collins]

 affects launchpad
 done

Trying to get a series from a project using launchpadlib;

    series = proj.series[seriesname]
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py",
line 705, in __getitem__
    found_slice = self._get_slice(slice(key, key+1))
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

This is kindof ugly. At the top level 'launchpad.projects["foo"]' works,
so one expects collections to be string indexed further down the
hierarchy.

(I realise there is getSeries, but why don't you then need to do
launchpad.getProject("foo"))

-Rob

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

launchpad.projects works because projects is a utility designed to lookup by name. project.series does nto work because series is a resultset. We do not have a driving need to get item access in projects at this time.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

It's far worse than that -- launchpad.projects is actually a hardcoded hack in launchpadlib that manually constructs URLs.