[pypy-dev] IOError with getpass() in django

[Armin Rigo]

Hi all,

I finally fixed the bug, by ignoring flush() entirely in case they
don't manage to do lseek().


A bientôt,

Armin.

On 5/31/12, Gelonida N <gelonida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 09:15 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Gelonida N <gelonida at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gelonida at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>>     I wanted to make my very first test with pypy by using django and
>>     sqlite3 on a Linux host (Ubuntu 12.04)
>>
>>     when running ./manage.py syncdb I'm asked to enter a password and
>>     pypy aborts as soon as I press enter.
>>
>>           File
>>
>> "/home/gelonida/mypypy/site-__packages/django/contrib/auth/__management/commands/__createsuperuser.py",
>>         line 109, in handle
>>             password = getpass.getpass()
>>           File "/usr/lib/pypy/lib-python/2.7/__getpass.py", line 74, in
>>         unix_getpass
>>             stream.flush()  # issue7208
>>         IOError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek: '<fdopen>'
>>
>>     Version info:
>>     Python 2.7.2 (1.8+dfsg-2, Feb 19 2012, 19:18:08)
>>     [PyPy 1.8.0 with GCC 4.6.2]
>>
>>     Django version: 1.3.1
>>
>>
>>     I even found a bug, which seems related (
>>     https://bugs.pypy.org/issue872 )
>>
>>     However I don't understand the impact and what this means exactly.
>>     Should I try to install another pypy (and if yes, how can I install
>>     it next to an existing one on Ubuntu 12.04)?
>>
>>     Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>>
>> No, it's a bug and we did not fix it yet. I'll have a look some time
>> today.
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> Shouldn't this affect all users trying to use Django on a new project?
> I didn't find any way by means of command line arguments to avoid the
> call to getpass()
>
> How do others work around it?
>
> What I did in the end was, that  I just called the first
> "./manage.py syncdb" with ordinary CPython.
>
> Subsequent calls won't call getpass() anymore and should thus be fine.
>
>
>
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