peer, salt-call: traceback: TypeError: a float is required

[Mrten]

see #5958 for the config:

sudo salt-call publish.publish 'web-*' svn.update /var/www/svn user www password=efs

missing =, results in traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/salt-call", line 11, in <module>
    salt_call()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/scripts.py", line 76, in salt_call
    client.run()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/cli/__init__.py", line 265, in run
    caller.run()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/cli/caller.py", line 134, in run
    ret = self.call()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/cli/caller.py", line 75, in call
    ret['return'] = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/modules/publish.py", line 129, in publish
    return _publish(tgt, fun, arg, expr_form, returner, timeout, 'clean')
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/modules/publish.py", line 72, in _publish
    time.sleep(timeout)
TypeError: a float is required

[terminalmage]

That's weird, IIRC time.sleep takes either an int or a float.

[terminalmage]

Ahh, it looks like the value is being passed to time.sleep is a string, which causes that exact traceback.

Python 2.7.5 (default, May 12 2013, 12:00:47)
[GCC 4.8.0 20130502 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> time.sleep('5')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: a float is required
>>>

Should be an easy fix, thanks for the report!