while trying to build an app around an existing database, inspectdb bails out on me. the server is running fine and says "0 errors found". any ideas ?
root@lpgaixmgmtlx01:/root/django/aixregistry_nxt>./manage.py runserver 0.0. 0.0:8000 Validating models... 0 errors found February 01, 2019 - 12:41:31 Django version 1.6.11.7, using settings 'aixregistry_nxt.settings' Starting development server at http://0.0.0.0:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C. root@lpgaixmgmtlx01:/root/django/aixregistry_nxt>./manage.py inspectdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py" , line 399, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py" , line 392, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 285, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 415, in handle return self.handle_noargs(**options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/inspectdb.py" , line 27, in handle_noargs for line in self.handle_inspection(options): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/inspectdb.py" , line 40, in handle_inspection cursor = connection.cursor() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 160, in cursor cursor = self.make_debug_cursor(self._cursor()) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 132, in _cursor self.ensure_connection() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 127, in ensure_connection self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 115, in connect self.connection = self.get_new_connection(conn_params) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 437, in get_new_connection conn.encoders[SafeBytes] = conn.encoders[bytes] KeyError: <type 'str'> Enter code here... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/d9b3cda8-5bc6-44a9-a7a2-2d32fafb30e0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.