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

[Gelonida N]

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.