Anki emits warning to standard out on startup

[Ted]

Anki emits a warning to standard out the first time /usr/share/anki/anki/deck.py:

/usr/share/anki/anki/deck.py:3597: SAWarning: Unicode column received non-unicode default value.

This is confusing to users who launch Anki from the command line, and is trivially fixed by changing the relevant line of deck.py from:

    Column('name', UnicodeText, nullable=False, default=""),

to:

    Column('name', UnicodeText, nullable=False, default=unicode("")),

This also causes unnecessary output for third-party tools that use Anki, like launchpad.net/space.

This is a regression from Ubuntu 11.10.

It's necessary for this bug to be fixed in Ubuntu, since the Anki maintainer has announced that he won't be supporting Anki 1.x versions after Anki 2 is released.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: anki 1.2.9-2 [modified: usr/share/anki/anki/deck.py]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: a7b7c6be700da674f2e6dc61bef2a8d8
CheckboxSystem: 86f6fcdd6850a813cd5c77b7959e6176
Date: Mon Apr 23 11:34:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: anki
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Anki 2.x has been in Ubuntu for a while