Opened 2 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
#33847 closed Bug (invalid)
`dumpdata` commands fails when invoked programmatically (but runs fine from commandline)
| Reported by: | Frederic Brodbeck | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Core (Management commands) | Version: | 3.2 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
I want to run django's dumpdata command programmatically, however
from django.core.management import call_command
call_command('dumpdata', 'asdf', indent=2, output=filePath)
fails with Unable to serialize database: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xdf' in position 83: ordinal not in range(128).
running python3 manage.py dumpdata --indent=2 --output=dump.json.gz asdf from the command line works fine though!
why won't it work with call_command()?
- python version:
3.6.9 - django version:
3.2.13 $LANGis set toen_US.UTF-8$LC_ALLis set toen_US.UTF-8$LC_CTYPEis set toUTF-8
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This is almost certainly a locale issue — are those
$LANGvars really being set in a script environment? 🤔See (e.g.) #15017, #20572, #32439 (and links therein) for some historical issues in this area.
You'll need to debug yourself, or provide a minimal test project that reproduces the issue.
Happy to reopen to look if you can provide such.