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 24097 Python3 AttributeError with redirect_to_login and lazy LOGIN_URL Peter Schmidt nobody "See discussion on #18776 to decide whether to keep patching symptoms or fix the root cause. Ran into the same `AttributeError: '__proxy__' object has no attribute 'decode'`. Please see attached `test_redirect_to_login.diff` or https://github.com/mathspace/django/compare/error-lazylogin-master which passes under Python 2.7 but throws the AttributeError under Python 3.4 One workaround is to explicitly pass the string form of the variable, i.e. `redirect_to_login(next=..., login_url=str(settings.LOGIN_URL))` " Bug closed contrib.auth 1.7 Release blocker fixed Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0