id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 17022 createsuperuser / get_default_username fail on systems without default locale encoding Preston Holmes nobody "r16182 introduced a regression in the case of systems that, for whatever reason, don't provide a locale encoding. For example on OS X Server 10.6: {{{ >>> import locale >>> locale.getdefaultlocale() (None, None) }}} as documented for the locale module, None is a valid return value: http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html#locale.getdefaultlocale However, the decode function does not allow None and will raise a TypeError: {{{ >>> get_default_username() Traceback (most recent call last): File """", line 1, in File ""/private/tmp/foo/src/django/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py"", line 105, in get_default_username default_username = get_system_username() File ""/private/tmp/foo/src/django/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 }}} the attach patch should fix this for most cases, since UTF8 is the best default however, short of mocking locale.getdefaultlocale, I'm not sure how to test this. " Bug closed contrib.auth dev Release blocker duplicate Unreviewed 1 0 0 0 0 0