python_2_unicode_compatible error

Question

I've models.py as follows,

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db import models
from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
from django.utils.timezone import now
@python_2_unicode_compatible
class Tag(models.Model):
 name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
 class Meta:
 verbose_name = 'tag'
 verbose_name_plural = 'tags'
 ordering = ['name']
 def __str__(self):
 return self.name
............. and so on

When I ran python manage.py syncdb this is the error I got:

itman@itman:~/djangoApp/mysite$ python manage.py syncdb
Traceback (most recent call last): 
 File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
 execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line
 utility.execute()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute
 self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv
 self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 231, in execute
 self.validate()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 266, in validate
 num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/validation.py", line 30, in get_validation_errors
 for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 158, in get_app_errors
 self._populate()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 67, in _populate
 self.load_app(app_name)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 88, in load_app
 models = import_module('.models', app_name)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
 __import__(name)
 File "/home/itman/djangoApp/mysite/bmark/models.py", line 4, in <module>
 from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
ImportError: cannot import name python_2_unicode_compatible

I don't know why the module is not imported. I'm using Python 2.7 and Django 1.4.

Answer 1

For the latest Django 3.0.4 , and auditlog try

from six import python_2_unicode_compatible

instead of

from django.utils.six import python_2_unicode_compatible

if it is not install run the below code

pip install six

• Aarif: Django 3 doesn't support python 2, what would you get out of using python_2_unicode_compatible anyways?
• Muhammad Zeeshan: @goose how to make change in the package file? i.e python3.8/site-packages/django_messages/encoding?

Answer 2

try

from django.utils.six import python_2_unicode_compatible

instead of

from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible

this works well for me in Django 1.10.6

• Doogle: works fine with django 2. Thanks for the suggestion. from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible this also works with django 2x
• Ashen One: Django 3.0 changed to 'from six import python_2_unicode_compatible'
• Abhishek Soni: six is not available in django 3.0.2, still facing the issue
• Brendan Quinn: @AbhishekSoni Django 3.0+ no longer supports Python 2 (docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/releases/3.0/…) so you can probably just remove the imports and decorators from your code and run your app under Python 3.
• surya raj: from django.utils import six, timezone ImportError: cannot import name 'six'

Answer 3

I faced the same issue when I upgraded the Django version 2.x to 3.x.

This issue, I faced due to auditlog library.

First, execute the below command

pip uninstall auditlog

then

pip install auditlog3

Answer 4

python_2_unicode_compatible feature has only been added in Django 1.5 version.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/utils/#django.utils.encoding.python_2_unicode_compatible

• kmario23: Thanks mate! I did a django upgrade using the following: sudo apt-get install python-setuptools ; sudo easy_install --upgrade django and that solved the problem
• dannyman: This answer doesn't actually answer the question, and I'm getting the same error with django 1.3. Upgrading to 1.6 breaks graphite, so . . . thanks but this really is not an answer.
• Kozlov V: $ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())" $ 1.6.5 but i allso have cannot import name python_2_unicode_compatible
• VoidMain: This does not solve the problem... Check out @Desperad0 answer! It worked for me.

Answer 5

For me the issue was django-jet package which is not compatible with django3 there is an issue on django-jet github apparently you need to use django-3-jet instead.

• Marco Castanho: It seems that django-jet is no longer maintained so, for Django 3.0 or 4.0 I'm using django-jet-reboot instead.

Answer 6

I ran into this issue when I wanted to use Django for Graphite. Turns out I had Django 1.3 installed and my Graphite version was breaking with Django> 1.5, so installing the latest version of the 1.4 branch fixed the problem:

sudo pip install --upgrade 'Django<1.5'

• Kozlov V: it is not solved: python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())" $ 1.6.5 but i allso have cannot import name python_2_unicode_compatible
• zzarbi: This fixed my problem, Was also trying to install Graphite

Answer 7

It's actually also present in the 1.4 series since 1.4.2. You should really be using the latest 1.4.X release (1.4.10 as of the time of this writing) as earlier versions have known security vulnerabilities.

Answer 8

I was having a same error while i was using the Djnago-multiselect app that was becuase the app was trying to run the following import

from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible

But in the newer version of django python_2_unicode_compatible is not in the encodings.py but rather in the six module and install if six is not there for you using

pip install six

and then go to the django.utils.encoding.py file and simply import python_2_unicode_compatible from six like that

from six import python_2_unicode_compatible

Answer 9

I have founded same problem :

from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
ImportError: cannot import name 'python_2_unicode_compatible'

I have update python version to python3.8, and I worked for me.

Answer 10

There is an existing package that supports Django 3: auditlog3

You can install it via pip install auditlog3

Answer 11

I have this upgrading Django 1.9 (Python 2.7) to Django 3.2 (Python 3.9).

You can solve this with a bash one liner:

grep -ril "from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible" your_project_source_code | xargs sed -i 's@from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible@from django.utils.six import python_2_unicode_compatible@g'

Answer 12

I was using Django in another computer, but wanted to copy the project with the virtual environment, too. It didn't work, so I had to recreate the environment. I got this error because I missed out one package from many:

django-background-tasks

So I had to install this package, and it solved the error.

Answer 13

Step 1: Install six by command: pip install six

Step 2: Go to the file: your_venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py

Step 3: Add this line to your file: from six import python_2_unicode_compatible

Answer 14

for me replacing from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible with from django.utils.six import python_2_unicode_compatible with installing below library works! pip install django-utils-six

Answer 15

In my case, I had to upgrade Django and it worked.

To upgrade: pip install --upgrade django-registration-redux