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 19362 Recursion error when deleting model object through admin Mark Wolf nobody "When I try to delete a specific object using the admin interface I get an error: {{{ RuntimeError at /admin/gtd/node/1470/delete/ maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object }}} It appears to be trying to convert something to unicode but I don't know what. From the Django error message I can see that the object appears as {{{DFRD] Test todo item>}}}, which doesn't seem to have any weird characters in it. The title is what I expect to be return from `__str__(self)` as described below. If I delete a different object (which has similar HTML markup in it) from the same model it works with no errors. The model in question defines `__str__(self)` which returns the value from a models.TextField() attribute wrapped in some HTML () which is passed through mark_safe() before being returned. The model is decorated with `@python_2_unicode_compatible`. Following the python3 migration guide, I added `from __future__ import unicode_literals` at the top of my models.py and removed `__unicode__(self)` but no difference. The stacktrace doesn't seem to go through my code anywhere. I git-pulled the latest changes to stable/1.5.x from github and reinstalled Django after removed the previous installation from dist-packages but the problem persists. I have not tried deleting this object pythonically; I figured I'd keep that object for now in case anyone needs me to reproduce the problem. Stacktrace: https://gist.github.com/4148524" Bug closed Python 2 1.5-alpha-1 Release blocker fixed python2.7.3 Accepted 1 0 1 0 0 0