#16017: createsuperuser fails if Python can't detect default locale
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Reporter: prestontimmons | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Core (Management | Version: 1.4
commands) | Resolution:
Severity: Normal | Triage Stage: Accepted
Keywords: dceu2011 | Needs documentation: 0
Has patch: 1 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Needs tests: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Easy pickings: 1 |
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Comment (by bill@…):
Hey, I'm a Django newbie, so my judgement may not be sound. But I want to
offer an opinion (or two...)
There are valid secondary questions about Django behavior and Python
behavior regarding the default locale values. The primary question (to
me) is this: There is a bug in Django, because the Django code does not
check the validity of the expression it passes into decode(). What is the
best way to fix it?
I suggest making a one-token change as follows. Add TypeError to the
kinds of exceptions that are caught and handled at this point in the code:
{{{
NEW line 86: except (TypeError, ImportError, KeyError,
UnicodeDecodeError):
PRESENT line 86: except ( ImportError, KeyError,
UnicodeDecodeError):
}}}
My thinking is that (1) the code is prepared to receive exceptions at this
point, and gracefully recovers from them (see line 91), this is a
reasonable workaround for the lack of checking of the argument to
decode(), and (3) this fix allows manage.py and the tutorial to run
without error.
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In my opinion, it is crucially important that Django fix this ASAP. I
really want to use Django, because people I respect say it is great. But
the tutorial is dead in the water without a fix for this. And great code
does not have a dead tutorial.
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