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'SortedDict' object has no attribute 'insert'

After deploying AskBot I observe an unusual error:

AttributeError at /settings/QA_SITE_SETTINGS/
'SortedDict' object has no attribute 'insert'

This is the result of the following code:

langs_dict = SortedDict(django_settings.LANGUAGES)
default_code = django_settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
default_name = langs_dict[default_code]
langs_dict.insert(0, default_code, default_name)

According to Django wiki, SortedDict seems to have insert method.

Any idea?

Here is the complete error page.
Related: AskBot bug.

Solution

  • The SortedDict.insert method was deprecated in Django 1.5, and removed in Django 1.7. The wiki page you linked to was out of date, so I removed the mention of the insert method from there.

    SortedDict itself is deprecated in Django 1.7, and will be removed in Django 1.9.

    Now that Django only supports Python 2.7+, the correct fix is to use collections.OrderedDict instead of SortedDict.