supybot suffers Python Exception when help on Factoids is requested

[Ralph Corderoy]

Binary package hint: supybot

Ubuntu 8.04, supybot 0.83.3-1.

Getting help from the Factoids plugin consistently has problems. A
Python exception occurs which is logged and the IRC user is told to
contact the bot's admin. for more info. Factoids is unusual among
plugins in not letting the default `help' system handle the request.
Here's the logged backtrace.

DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Incoming message: :ralph!~ralph@87.112.227.73 PRIVMSG scrumpy :help factoids lock
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot findCallbacksForArgs: [(<Config Config <Config.plugin.Config object at 0x84e5eec>>, ['help']), (<Plugin Plugin <Plugin.plugin.Plugin object at 0x868912c>>, ['help']), (<Misc Misc <Misc.plugin.Misc object at 0x85f624c>>, ['help'])]
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot defaultPlugin: 'Misc'
INFO 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot help called by "ralph!~ralph@87.112.227.73".
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot args before <many for something>: ['factoids', 'lock']
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot args after <many for something>: ['lock']
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot args before <many for something>: ['lock']
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot args after <many for something>: []
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot State before call: State(args=[['factoids', 'lock']], kwargs={}, channel=None)
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot findCallbacksForArgs: [(<Factoids Factoids <Factoids.plugin.Factoids object at 0x84eafac>>, ['factoids', 'lock'])]
ERROR 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Spec: [<many for something>]
ERROR 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Received args: []
ERROR 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Extra args: ['command']
ERROR 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Uncaught exception in ['help'].
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/callbacks.py", line 1175, in _callCommand
    self.callCommand(command, irc, msg, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/utils/python.py", line 62, in g
    f(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/callbacks.py", line 1161, in callCommand
    method(irc, msg, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/commands.py", line 906, in newf
    f(self, irc, msg, args, *state.args, **state.kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/plugins/Misc/plugin.py", line 199, in help
    irc.reply(cbs[0].getCommandHelp(command))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/plugins/Factoids/plugin.py", line 109, in getCommandHelp
    return super(Factoids, self).getCommandHelp(self, command)
TypeError: getCommandHelp() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
ERROR 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Exception id: 0xe695c
DEBUG 2008-05-28T10:32:01 supybot Outgoing message: NOTICE ralph :An error has occurred and has been logged. Please contact this bot's administrator for more information.

[James McCoy (jamessan)]

You're running your own Supybot setup. This error is from the recent upstream release 0.83.4, not the packaged version of Supybot.

[James McCoy (jamessan)]

Hmm, that doesn't actually seem to be the case. I missed the reported by date initially. This is a different bug that affected Factoids which is fixed in the recent 0.83.4 release. :)

[Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus)]

Just to confirm, the above was definitely from Ubuntu 8.04, supybot 0.83.3-1, as stated.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package supybot - 0.83.4.1.ds-1

---------------
supybot (0.83.4.1.ds-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    - Requesting help for Factoids commands no longer errors out. (LP: #235439)
    - Regular expressions with multiple backslashes are properly parsed.
      (LP: #235500)
  * debian/control
    - Add Vcs-* fields.
    - Bump standards version to 3.8.1.0 - no changes needed.
    - Add python-feedparser to Recommends. (Closes: #490615)
    - Add python-simplejson | python (>= 2.6) to Recommends.
    - Add python-dateutil, python-dictclient to Suggests.
    - Add version to debhelper Build-Depends.
  * debian/rules:
    - Use stamp files as pre-requisites instead of the related phony targets.
    - Call dh_prep instead of dh_clean -k.
  * debian/watch: Call new debian/repack script to remove embedded copies of
    third-party code from new upstream tarballs.
  * debian/docs: Include FAQ and CONFIGURATION docs in the package.
  * Bump compat level to 7.

 -- <email address hidden> (Andres E. Rodriguez Lazo) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:50:57 +0100