Re: How to create superuser?

[Skip Montanaro]

get_system_username

    return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1])

TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None

I'm on a Mac, which has minimally broken locale support.  I went back to settings.py and set USE_L10N to False.  After that, the syncdb command worked, but I don't have a superuser.

Actually, the USE_L10N was a red herring.  I thought that because subsequent syncdb commands succeeded that this change fixed the problem.  I discovered the createsuperuser command.  That still fails with the decode() error.

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[Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela]

Check the docs, there is a manage.py command to create superusers once
the DB is sync'd:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/django-admin/#createsuperuser

Regards,
Carlos Ruvalcaba

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[Skip Montanaro]

Google to the rescue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10882839/django-unsupported-locale-setting-on-mac-os-x

After setting LC_ALL in venv/bin/activate and re-sourcing solved my problem.  Not sure if this should be handled automatically by either Django or virtualenv setup, but maybe a note in the tutorial would be helpful for other clueless newbies like me.

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[Pedro J. Aramburu]

If you're using bash, you should set it up on ~/.bashrc file, that way it will always load, for every virtualenv and every terminal session.

BTW ~/ stands for the home directory and instead of LC_ALL try something like this:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

That would give less trouble with other programs.