LatestCommentsFeed causing AssertionError due to slicing

[Stuart Williams <stuart@…>]

LatestCommentsFeed from contrib/comments/feeds.py calls upon LatestFreeCommentsFeed, which slices the result. This causes an AssertionError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py"
in get_response
  77. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/syndication/
views.py" in feed
  19. feedgen = f(slug, request.path).get_feed(param)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/syndication/
feeds.py" in get_feed
  94. for item in self.__get_dynamic_attr('items', obj):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/syndication/
feeds.py" in __get_dynamic_attr
  51. return attr()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/comments/
feeds.py" in items
  36. qs = qs.filter(is_removed=False)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py" in
filter
  368. return self._filter_or_exclude(None, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py" in
_filter_or_exclude
  381. "Cannot filter a query once a slice has been taken."

  AssertionError at /rss/comments/
  Cannot filter a query once a slice has been taken. 

Sorry about the lack of further details, but I'm pretty new to both Python and Django... Thanks!

[Chris Beaven]

Thanks for the report, Stuart. Glad we got to the bottom of this (this ticket follows an IRC troubleshooting session)

[Chris Beaven]

To explain the problem, LatestCommentsFeed.items is getting a sliced queryset (from LatestFreeCommentsFeed.items) and then trying to filter on it. Which you can't do.

Here comes the patch...