'SortedDict' object has no attribute 'insert'

Question

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?

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From the wiki page you linked: «SortedDict is deprecated as of Django 1.7 and will be removed in Django 1.9. Use [collections.OrderedDict](http://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict) instead.» Herein lies the fix, I suppose. — 9000, Oct 28 '15 at 16:00
@9000 Django version is 1.7.10, therefore should still be supported although deprecated. Do you think it's a Django bug? — Amir Gonnen, Oct 28 '15 at 16:01
No, it's not a bug in Django. The `inserted` method was deprecated then removed. The problem is in AskBot. — Alasdair, Oct 28 '15 at 16:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '15 at 16:10

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 The wiki page you linked to was out of date, so I removed the mention of the insert method from there.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.

'SortedDict' object has no attribute 'insert'

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