NameError: global name 'sorted' is not defined

[richard.cross@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /newticket, Trac issued an internal error.

This happened when I added the following to trac.ini:

[components] ticketsubmitpolicy.* = enabled

...

[ticket-submit-policy] policy1.condition = type is not defect policy1.excludes = version

More specifically, it's the two policy1... lines that cause the problem. I would enter the policy via the web interface, but this throws errors also (see ​ticket 3943)

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1

System Information

Trac	0.11
Python	2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:28:55) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)]
setuptools	0.6c8
SQLite	3.3.6
pysqlite	1.1.7
Genshi	0.5
Pygments	0.9
Subversion	1.1.4 (r13838)
jQuery:	1.2.3

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Trac-0.11-py2.3.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 423, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Trac-0.11-py2.3.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 219, in dispatch
    data, content_type)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Trac-0.11-py2.3.egg/trac/web/chrome.py", line 690, in render_template
    stream |= self._filter_stream(req, method, filename, stream, data)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/genshi/core.py", line 128, in __or__
    __swig_getmethods__["size"] = _core.svn_dirent_t_size_get
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Trac-0.11-py2.3.egg/trac/web/chrome.py", line 789, in inner
    data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/TicketSubmitPolicy-0.7-py2.3.egg/ticketsubmitpolicy/ticketsubmitpolicy.py", line 161, in filter_stream
    policies = self.parse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/TicketSubmitPolicy-0.7-py2.3.egg/ticketsubmitpolicy/ticketsubmitpolicy.py", line 108, in parse
    comparitors = sorted(self.comparitors.keys(), key=lambda x: len(x), reverse=True)
NameError: global name 'sorted' is not defined

[Jeff Hammel]

really, you should upgrade to python 2.4 or greater, which would fix this problem. I'll see if there's an easy fix for 2.3 (which doesn't have sorted built-in)

[Jeff Hammel]

hopefully fixed with r4545

[Jeff Hammel]

Replying to k0s:

hopefully fixed with r4545

...though still...please upgrade to python at least 2.4; i don't have much interest in doing extra work to support a version of python that is now 4 years old and precedes the life of my plugins

[anonymous]

Yeah, the problem with Python is that I'm running Trac on a managed server that only uses packages distributed by YUM. The latest version of Python it provides is 2.3.4. I'll see if I can convince our hosting company to install Python 2.4 manually.