Only remote task is picked

Effectively BugList represents every unique bug. So the data structure of a set() makes perfect sense. Right now using BugInfo will represent the different tasks. I agree that this is somewhat irksome and requires to not only download the buglist, but also the bug.

To fix this bug, I propose to add an attribute to bugs in the buglist named .affects -- using it in pseudo-code could look like this:

for b in buglist: if 'Ubuntu' in b.affects: ...

I think Daniel's suggestion has been implemented by adding bug.has_target() (Bug 137434)

But I think the real problem is that Cesare wants to have a list of all Tasks and BugList currently returns a list of all Bugs, having a list of all tasks is useful in many cases.

I propose to add an additional (optional) argument 'all_tasks' to BugList:
 * BugList("https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-universe-sponsors", all_tasks=True) would return list as expected by Cesare
 * BugList("https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-universe-sponsors") would return the current state

We could also wrap around this 'all_tasks'-thing by adding a 'TaskList'-function:
TaskList("https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-universe-sponsors") == BugList("https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-universe-sponsors", all_tasks=True)

Markus

This patch against py-lp-bugs.main r61 adds a TaskList object.

Example:

=== CODE ===
import launchpadbugs.connector as Connector

BugList = Connector.ConnectBugList()
TaskList = Connector.ConnectTaskList()
BugList.authentication="cookies.txt"
TaskList.authentication="cookies.txt"
bl = BugList("https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bughelper/+bugs")
bl += BugList("https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bughelper/+bugs")
print "len BUGLIST:", len(bl.bugs)
for i in bl.sort("nr"):
    print i

bl = TaskList("https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bughelper/+bugs")
bl += TaskList("https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bughelper/+bugs")
print "len TASKLIST:",len(bl.bugs)
for i in bl.sort("nr"):
    print i

=== RESULT ===

markus@thekorn:/home/devel/python-launchpad-bugs/main$ python error.py
len BUGLIST: 11
[Bug 81291 : Confirmed/Wishlist]
[Bug 84723 : Confirmed/Wishlist]
[Bug 88102 : Confirmed/Medium]
[Bug 88521 : Confirmed/Wishlist]
[...]
len TASKLIST: 12
[Bug 81291 : Confirmed/Wishlist]
[Bug 84723 : Confirmed/Wishlist]
[Bug 88102 : Confirmed/Undecided]
[Bug 88102 : Confirmed/Medium]
[Bug 88521 : Confirmed/Wishlist]
[...]

python-launchpad-bugs (0.2.22) gutsy; urgency=low

  * connector.py: added TaskList() wrapper-function
  * html_buglist.py: added optional switch 'all_bugs' to BugList, BugPage
    and BugInfo; if 'all_bugs'==False BugInfo-objects are equal if
    they have the same bug-number otherwise BugInfo-objects
    are equal if all attributes are equal.

 -- Markus Korn <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:26:32 +0200