Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#8083 closed defect
Email notifications don't work with Python 2.6: "TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode"" — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Emmanuel Blot | |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 0.11.4 |
| Component: | notification | Version: | none |
| Severity: | critical | Keywords: | python26 |
| Cc: | Branch: | ||
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Description
When email notification is attempted to be sent with Python 2.6 the following exception is generated:
2009-02-20 20:29:35,839 Trac[web_ui] ERROR: Failure sending notification on change to ticket #39: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/trac/ticket/web_ui.py", line 1017, in _do_save
tn.notify(ticket, newticket=False, modtime=now)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/trac/ticket/notification.py", line 151, in notify
NotifyEmail.notify(self, ticket.id, subject)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/trac/notification.py", line 246, in notify
Notify.notify(self, resid)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/trac/notification.py", line 134, in notify
self.begin_send()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/trac/notification.py", line 328, in begin_send
self.server.login(self.user_name, self.password)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 574, in login
(code, resp) = self.docmd(encode_cram_md5(resp, user, password))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 538, in encode_cram_md5
response = user + " " + hmac.HMAC(password, challenge).hexdigest()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/hmac.py", line 72, in init
self.outer.update(key.translate(trans_5C))
TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode
This is related to bug in HMAC library: http://bugs.python.org/issue5285
But login and password should not be sent to HMAC as unicode strings anyway.
