ImportError preventing plugin from being loaded

I don't know why ... trac 0.12.4 has the method: http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/tags/trac-0.12.4/trac/util/text.py#L178

In my PC, TracLinksPlugin works well with trac-0.12.3 + Python 2.7.3.

The import was added on changeset:12082.
If you don't need "new ticket template" and "hash link" feature,
please use source:/trunk/traclinksplugin/0.12@11593 of this plugin
or reverse patch changeset:12082 to avoid the error.

Ok, I thought of one possible reason, our Trac installation is an egg file, instead of being an unzipped egg. I asked our IT team to unzip the Trac egg installation. Once they've done that I'll try the plugin again. If that doesn't work, I'll try your suggestion.

Thanks for the fast reply!

quote_query_string is available in Trac 0.12.4, however it is unavailable in 0.12.3. We should use unicode_urlencode which is available in Trac 0.10 instead.

Index: traclinks/textbox.py
===================================================================
--- traclinks/textbox.py        (revision 12516)
+++ traclinks/textbox.py        (working copy)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from trac.web.api import ITemplateStreamFilter
 from trac.web.chrome import ITemplateProvider, add_script
 from trac.wiki.api import IWikiSyntaxProvider
-from trac.util.text import quote_query_string
+from trac.util.text import unicode_urlencode

 class TextBox(Component):
     """ Generate TracLinks in search box for:
@@ -104,9 +104,10 @@
             traclinks = '%s:%s' % (resource.realm, traclinks)
             # new ticket template
             if resource.id == None and resource.realm == 'ticket':
-                v = data['ticket'].values
-                keyvalue = ['%s=%s' % (k, quote_query_string(v[k])) for k in v.keys() if v[k] not in (None, '')]
-                traclinks = '[/newticket?%s]' % '&'.join(keyvalue)
+                query_string = unicode_urlencode(
+                    [(k, v) for k, v in data['ticket'].values.iteritems()
+                            if v not in (None, '')])
+                traclinks = '[/newticket?%s]' % query_string
             return stream | Transformer('//input[@id="proj-search"]').attr('value', traclinks).attr('size', '50')
         return stream

Ok, my thoughts in comment:2 were correct, once I unzipped the Python egg that Trac was installed as, it worked fine.

Do you want to keep this ticket open for comment:4?

(In [12561]) TracLinksPlugin: fix a bug in new ticket preview, closes #10790 (worksforme), applied patch in comment:4:ticket:10790.

(In [12562]) TracLinksPlugin: fix a bug in new ticket preview, closes #10790 (worksforme), applied patch in comment:4:ticket:10790.