Crash at fresh start with KeyError on twenty_four_hour_time #1600
Description
I apologize if I'm just missing something... I find it hard to believe I'm the first person to run into this error if this is a legitimate bug report...
Bug description
Attempting to use zulip-term just crashes with a KeyError on twenty_four_hour_time.
How is the bug triggered?
How can you reproduce the bug?
- Write zuliprc to the home directory.
- Install and run zulip-term
Session below:
$ cat zuliprc
[api]
[email protected]
key=[redacted]
site=https://[redacted].zulipchat.com
$ uvx zulip-term
Installed 21 packages in 25ms
/home/evan/.cache/uv/archive-v0/8bB3pqW3C2tyAAoUOYU0J/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urwid/signals.py:253: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\*'
:param \*args: zero or more positional arguments to pass to the signal
Loading with:
theme 'zt_dark' specified with no config.
autohide setting 'no_autohide' specified with no config.
maximum footlinks value '3' specified with no config.
color depth setting '256' specified with no config.
notify setting 'disabled' specified with no config.
Welcome to Zulip.
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Zulip Terminal has crashed!
Please refer to zulip-terminal-tracebacks.log for full log of the error.
You can ask for help at:
https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/206-zulip-terminal
Thanks for using the Zulip-Terminal interface.
$ uvx zulip-term --version
Zulip Terminal 0.7.0
I used uvx to do the install in this demo but got the same error using the AUR package as well.
Does it produce a 'traceback' or 'exception'?
{e}
'twenty_four_hour_time'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/evan/.cache/uv/archive-v0/8bB3pqW3C2tyAAoUOYU0J/lib/python3.13/site-packages/zulipterminal/cli/run.py", line 500, in main
Controller(
~~~~~~~~~~^
config_file=zuliprc_path,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<6 lines>...
debug_path=debug_path,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
).main()
^
File "/home/evan/.cache/uv/archive-v0/8bB3pqW3C2tyAAoUOYU0J/lib/python3.13/site-packages/zulipterminal/core.py", line 84, in __init__
self.model = Model(self)
~~~~~^^^^^^
File "/home/evan/.cache/uv/archive-v0/8bB3pqW3C2tyAAoUOYU0J/lib/python3.13/site-packages/zulipterminal/model.py", line 217, in __init__
twenty_four_hour_time=self.initial_data["twenty_four_hour_time"],
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'twenty_four_hour_time'
How are you running the application?
Please include as many of the following as possible:
- Zulip-terminal version: 0.7.0
- Zulip server version(s): Zulip Cloud Standard
- Operating system (and version): Arch Linux 6.17.9-arch1-1
- Python version (and implementation): see details below for uvx (but again, the same errors occur from AUR version)
$ uvx -v zulip-term
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DEBUG Acquired exclusive lock for `.local/share/uv/tools`
DEBUG Checking for Python environment at: `.local/share/uv/tools/zulip-term`
DEBUG Released lock at `/home/evan/.local/share/uv/tools/.lock`
DEBUG Assessing Python executable as base candidate: /usr/bin/python
DEBUG Caching via base interpreter: `/usr/bin/python`
DEBUG Using request timeout of 30s
DEBUG Solving with installed Python version: 3.13.7
DEBUG Solving with target Python version: >=3.13.7
DEBUG Adding direct dependency: zulip-term*
DEBUG Found fresh response for: https://pypi.org/simple/zulip-term/
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