TypeError: create_superuser() takes exactly 4 arguments (3 given)

[bw2]

Running

 echo 'bla' | python -u manage.py createsuperuser --username test --email test

prints

Superuser creation skipped due to not running in a TTY. You can run `manage.py createsuperuser` in your project to create 

as expected, but then also raises this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/Users/weisburd/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 363, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/Users/weisburd/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 355, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/Users/weisburd/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 283, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/Users/weisburd/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 63, in execute
    return super(Command, self).execute(*args, **options)
  File "/Users/weisburd/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 330, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/Users/weisburd/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 183, in handle
    self.UserModel._default_manager.db_manager(database).create_superuser(**user_data)
TypeError: create_superuser() takes exactly 4 arguments (3 given)

[Jeff]

I'll look at this

[Jeff]

I got the same TTY exception running this in my terminal, but did not receive the second error. Could you provide some more information on your system, where you ran the command, and copy paste the I/O for me?

[Ramiro Morales]

It's strange the issue was opened against version 2.1 but the traceback shows things running under Python 2.7.

[Jeff]

very true. I ran with python3 on master and saw no sign of the TypeError. Starting to sound like this may not be a real issue. bw2, can you confirm you were using python2.7 and on version 2.1?

[Tim Graham]

I couldn't reproduce on Django 1.11. Maybe a custom user model and an incorrectly written user manager is the cause?