NameError: global name 'api' is not defined

[gabelilly]

I installed keyring as part of the mercurial-keyring package, but I'm running into the following error when attempting to set a password. I've tried multiple reinstalls, but nothing seems to be working. I'm not terribly familiar with python so this might be an obvious issue. Thanks for the help.

Password for 'bar' in 'foo':
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/keyring", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keyring/cli.py", line 101, in main
    return cli.run(argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keyring/cli.py", line 64, in run
    set_password(service, username, password)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keyring/core.py", line 48, in set_password
    _keyring_backend.set_password(service_name, username, password)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keyring/backends/OS_X.py", line 36, in set_password
    except api.Error:
NameError: global name 'api' is not defined

[jaraco]

That error will occur when the API module fails to import.

Can you run this command?

$ /usr/local/lib/python2.7 -c "import keyring.backends._OS_X_API"

That should produce the underlying exception that's causing the module to be missing.

[gabelilly]

Thanks for the help, got the issue solved. Missing the six package.

➜  ~ /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c "import keyring.backends._OS_X_API"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keyring/backends/_OS_X_API.py", line 6, in <module>
    import six
ImportError: No module named six

After installing that package (don't know how I didn't have it in the first place), the issue is resolved. Thanks again.

[jaraco]

I believe underlying issue is that six is undeclared. The reason that the tests didn't capture the failure is because six is installed by test environments (and in my day-to-day usage), so it wasn't caught earlier. Thanks for tracking it down.