2.1 has no nested scopes.
Please don't do that:
def listGroupRequest(self, group):
sql = """
SELECT postings.article_index FROM postings,groups
WHERE postings.group_id = groups.group_id
AND groups.name = '%s'
""" % (adbapi.safe(group),)
return self.runQuery(sql).addCallback(
lambda results: (group, [res[0] for res in results])
)