On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:38:23PM +0000, Tom Evans wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Niels <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is this a known bug? > > > > csh .. > python manage.py syncdb > > > > Creating tables ... > > Creating table auth_permission > > default_username = get_system_username() > > File > > "/usr/local/www/site-python/lib/django-trunk/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", > > line 85, in get_system_username > > return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]) > > TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None > > > > This is just from a normal useracccount logged in through ssh: > > > > csh .. > uname -or > > FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 > > csh .. > svn info /usr/local/www/site-python/lib/django-trunk/django > > Revision: 17077 > > > > csh .. > _ > > What locale are you in (output of locale(1) would be handy)? You > should be able to reproduce this without django, django just makes > assumptions that you have a sane locale set: > > Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec 13 2010, 15:52:15) > [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd8 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import locale > >>> locale.getdefaultlocale() > ('en_GB', 'UTF-8') > > You will probably get ('something', None) returned from yours?
Worse: >>> locale.getdefaultlocale() (None, None) Still i'd say this should be handled better than bailing out with an error. Something like .. .decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or 'ascii', 'ignore') > > Cheers > > Tom Thanks. Niels. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
