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pythondatabasedjangoubuntudjango-south
Lucio
Lucio

Reputation: 5408

I can't sync the db using south due to an AttributeError

After solve an error trying to migrate, now I'm facing another issue with the south package.

Running manage.py syncdb or manage.py schemamigration MyApp --initial I get this:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__'

This post mentions that the issue is solved with the new version (0.8.4) but not for me 'cause I have the latest one.

I'm running over a virtual enviroment with python3.3 - Any clue?

If you didn't see the link or don't want to open it, here is the full stacktrace in plain text:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 285, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/management/commands/schemamigration.py", line 87, in handle
    migrations = Migrations(app, force_creation=True, verbose_creation=int(verbosity) > 0)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 64, in __call__
    self.instances[app_label] = super(MigrationsMetaclass, self).__call__(app_label_to_app_module(app_label), **kwds)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.set_application(application, force_creation, verbose_creation)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 163, in set_application
    self._load_migrations_module(application.migrations)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 170, in _load_migrations_module
    dirname = self.migrations_dir()
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 132, in migrations_dir
    return os.path.dirname(module.__file__)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1046

Answers (3)

semente
semente

Reputation: 7513

At least in Django 1.5 if you have empty "migrations" directories the AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__' error will also happen.

Upvotes: 1

francisoreilly
francisoreilly

Reputation: 53

Just for completeness I'm highlighting @rara_tiru 's answer from the comments as an answer as it was also my issue: I also had a migrations folder in my app, when the migrations folder was removed, it worked. Using Python 3.3 / South 1.0 / Django 1.6.5.

Upvotes: 4

Lucio
Lucio

Reputation: 5408

The issue was that I was using python3.3 for the whole project but the initial python manage.py syncdb command was entered using pyhon2.7, which will give me several issues later.

I noticed this after generate the project from the scratch and look an error in the output of manage.py syncdb.

Then I deleted all the info from postgre-sql and, after source bin/activate, run python3 manage.py syncdb.

Upvotes: 1

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