Bug 1016154

Summary: python exceptions returned from libpwquality do not contain expected named members
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Shea <dshea>
Component: libpwqualityAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description David Shea 2013-10-07 15:43:17 UTC
Description of problem:
The Python exceptions raised in libpwquality set the exception value as a tuple of (error code, error descrption). PWQError does not define any attributes, so trying to access PWQError.message always returns an empty string.

PWQError derives from Exception, so it should provide a message attribute, either by using PyErr_SetString instead of PyErr_SetObject and adding the error code to the exception object elsewhere, or by setting the message attribute manually.

libpwquality also returns AttributeErrors with the value set to a tuple, same problem.


Steps to Reproduce:

from pwquality import PWQSettings, PWQError
try:
    PWQSettings().check("password", None, None)
except PWQError as e:
    # This should print something
    print(e.message)

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Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2017-05-26 14:22:43 UTC
Is there a way how to fix this without breaking the compatibility with existing callers of the pwquality module?

Comment 3 David Shea 2017-05-30 13:28:54 UTC
Of course. The python2 exception types are already subscriptable, so an exception object could be created with the tuple items as the argument list and then the excepted attributes can be set on the object.

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2017-05-30 14:30:56 UTC
Is there any code example somewhere? Of course pull request on the github project would be the best but the example would be good enough.

https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality

Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2017-06-05 13:12:35 UTC
So actually the message is deprecated in python >= 2.6 and dropped in python 3. I am wontfixing this.