Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#17185 closed Bug (duplicate)

[patch] manage.py createsuperuser fails when locale is not set

Reported by: Niels Poppe Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.auth Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: yes UI/UX: no

Description

When locale(1) is like
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

then "./manage.py createsuperuser" results in a traceback ending

File "/usr/lib/py-dev/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

Since get_system_username() tries to guard against restricted environments like being run in a chroot() environment chances are there is no sane LANG environment either — resulting in getdefaultlocale() returning (None, None).

Assuming ascii encoding is probably okay because UnicodeDecodeError is catched anyway. Calling decode() with ‘ignore’ or not is a matter of taste.

See attached patch.

Attachments (1)

get_username.patch (787 bytes ) - added by Niels Poppe 13 years ago.
patches get_system_username() to function correctly when locale is not set up

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Change History (2)

by Niels Poppe, 13 years ago

Attachment: get_username.patch added

patches get_system_username() to function correctly when locale is not set up

comment:1 by Karen Tracey, 13 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Duplicate of #17022, #16017

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