python 2.6 breaks attachments/milestone editing/likely more

[adam@…]

the python 2.6 changelog entry:

The cgi module will now read variables from the query string of an HTTP POST request. This makes it possible to use form actions with URLs that include query strings such as “/cgi-bin/add.py?category=1”.

seems to break attachments for me. The query string is

http://XXX/trac/yyy/attachment/wiki/APage/?action=new&attachfilebutton=Attach+file

and "action" is, of course, also a hidden posted with the form. This causes attachment.py (370):

if action == 'new':

to fail, because req.args.get('action', 'view') returns an array [q'new', q'new'].

Attachments in tickets and wiki pages are affected, as is edit milestone and (given the source of the problem) likely exists for other POST'ed forms throughout trac.

I'm using trac-0.11.2 with python-2.6.0 on apache2-2.2.10 with apache2-mod_python-3.3.1 (the openSuSE-11.1 RC1 packages).

I looked through the code and found a few instances where a POST will expect scalar values and not check. To get my team up and running I patched trac locally by replacing calls to get with calls to getfirst each time my team stumbles into a broken form. This sweeps the problem under that carpet (if, for example, the query string's value differs from the form field's value for some reason), but at least its not python 2.6 specific.

[rblank]

#7816 was closed as a duplicate.

[jonas]

A patch that fixes a couple of Python 2.6 compatibility problems

[jonas]

I've just attached a patch that fixes all Python 2.6 issues I've found so far:

FieldStorage?

Avoid py2.6's new FieldStorage? behavior by temporarily hiding the QUERY_STRING header for POST-requests.

Deprecation warning in core.py

BaseException.message is now deprecated.

Removed failing test test_from_exception_using_str

As of Python 2.6 exceptions can no longer return unicode strings in __str__()

I would love to get some feedback on these changes before committing them. I'll also try to setup a py2.6 build host.

[cboos]

I tried to get away from the ?action=new URL in Attachment POSTs, but didn't find how to do it yet. So restoring pre-2.6 behavior seems appropriate to me as an interim measure, like you indicated in the comment.

[jonas]

This was fixed in [7774] but I forgot to close this ticket. Since most Linux distributions are still on py2.5 I'm not sure how much testing this has got yet. It would be great to get some feedback from people actually testing/running Trac on py2.6.

[guardian]

attachments are working again when running python 2.6 + mod_wsgi 2.3 + 0.11stable-r7787 / archlinux

thank you

[anonymous]

Note for Ubuntu 9.0.4 users:

• The trac package that is installed with Ubuntu 9.0.4 do suffer from the above bug and will not do attachment

The fix is:

1. Check trac version:

   > dpkg --status trac
   Package: trac
   Status: install ok installed
   Priority: optional
   Section: web
   Installed-Size: 3048
   Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
   Architecture: all
   Version: 0.11.1-2.1
   

2. Remove ubuntu trac packages:

   sudo dpkg -r trac
   

And install from sources:

1. Dopwnload latest from: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload/
2. cd /tmp
3. Extract
4. cd /tmp/Trac-0.11.5
5. sudo python ./setup.py install
6. Add /usr/local/bin to PATH
7. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Note that I use SVN/SQLITE. Users of BAZAR/GIT or MYSQL/POSTGRESS may need to add other packages