Tests failing on macOS with "AttributeError: 'InternationalizedText' object has no attribute 'text'"

[axman6]

I'm trying to run gmake on macOS to build and test electionguard-python to try and help me track down some issues I'm getting in my Haskell implementation, and I'm getting lots of failures around InternationalizedText. An example is:

__________________________________________ TestManifest.test_simple_manifest_is_valid __________________________________________

self = <tests.unit.test_manifest.TestManifest testMethod=test_simple_manifest_is_valid>

    def test_simple_manifest_is_valid(self):
    
        # Act
>       subject = election_factory.get_simple_manifest_from_file()

tests/unit/test_manifest.py:26: 
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src/electionguard_tools/factories/election_factory.py:84: in get_simple_manifest_from_file
    return self._get_manifest_from_file(self.simple_election_manifest_file_name)
src/electionguard_tools/factories/election_factory.py:246: in _get_manifest_from_file
    return from_file_to_dataclass(Manifest, os.path.join(data, filename))
src/electionguard_tools/helpers/serialize.py:52: in from_file_to_dataclass
    return parse_obj_as(dataclass_type_, data)
pydantic/tools.py:34: in pydantic.tools.parse_obj_as
    ???
pydantic/tools.py:27: in pydantic.tools._get_parsing_type
    ???
pydantic/main.py:990: in pydantic.main.create_model
    ???
pydantic/main.py:299: in pydantic.main.ModelMetaclass.__new__
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:411: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.infer
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:342: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.__init__
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:456: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.prepare
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:670: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.populate_validators
    ???
pydantic/validators.py:675: in find_validators
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:266: in make_dataclass_validator
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:255: in pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:250: in pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass.wrap
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:186: in pydantic.dataclasses._process_class
    ???
pydantic/main.py:990: in pydantic.main.create_model
    ???
pydantic/main.py:299: in pydantic.main.ModelMetaclass.__new__
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:411: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.infer
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:342: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.__init__
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:451: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.prepare
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:629: in pydantic.fields.ModelField._type_analysis
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:648: in pydantic.fields.ModelField._create_sub_type
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:342: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.__init__
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:456: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.prepare
    ???
pydantic/fields.py:670: in pydantic.fields.ModelField.populate_validators
    ???
pydantic/validators.py:675: in find_validators
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:266: in make_dataclass_validator
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:255: in pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:250: in pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass.wrap
    ???
pydantic/dataclasses.py:158: in pydantic.dataclasses._process_class
    ???
/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/dataclasses.py:1021: in dataclass
    return wrap(cls)
/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/dataclasses.py:1013: in wrap
    return _process_class(cls, init, repr, eq, order, unsafe_hash, frozen)
/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/dataclasses.py:993: in _process_class
    str(inspect.signature(cls)).replace(' -> None', ''))
/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/inspect.py:3068: in __str__
    formatted = str(param)
/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/inspect.py:2591: in __str__
    formatted = '{} = {}'.format(formatted, repr(self._default))
/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/dataclasses.py:370: in wrapper
    result = user_function(self)
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self = <[AttributeError("'InternationalizedText' object has no attribute 'text'") raised in repr()] InternationalizedText object at 0x1038b70a0>

>   ???
E   AttributeError: 'InternationalizedText' object has no attribute 'text'

Looking at the election_manifest_simple.json I can't see anything that looks like internationalised text, so I'm trying to figure out how these tests are supposed to pass at all. I'm using python 3.9.7 not the recommended 3.9.5 because I wasn't sure how to install that using homebrew.

I'm sure there's probably something dumb I'm doing, so please let me know if it jumps out at you!

[keithrfung]

Python 3.9.7 has a bug in it that has to be resolved with a patch. There is an open issue for this in the python repository. Switch to 3.9.5. I recommend using pyenv instead of homebrew.
Election-Tech-Initiative/electionguard-python#440

[axman6]

Thanks Keith, I was sure I had seen this mentioned somewhere but couldn’t find it, I’m glad it’s not just me.