Django 1.4 tutorial part 1 seems broken at the superuser creation stage.

Hello Dear Django Group.

My first day with Django, I just got it installed on my computer, and am trying to follow along with the first tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/

I have Django's development server up, and I'm able to see the "It worked!" Django welcome page. Where I ran into the dead end is at the following section:

"The syncdb command looks at the INSTALLED_APPS setting and creates any necessary database tables according to the database settings in your settings.py file. You'll see a message for each database table it creates, and you'll get a prompt asking you if you'd like to create a superuser account for the authentication system. Go ahead and do that."

Up to this point, I've followed the tutorial line by line. However, after I ran the command "python manage.py syncdb", I got the error message below, and it seems to be an internal error to Django. Has anyone else encountered this issue, and how did you resolve it? Any feedback or insight is appreciated. Thank you!

$ python manage.py syncdb                                                      

Creating tables ...

Creating table auth_permission

Creating table auth_group_permissions

Creating table auth_group

Creating table auth_user_user_permissions

Creating table auth_user_groups

Creating table auth_user

Creating table django_content_type

Creating table django_session

Creating table django_site

You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined.

Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line

    utility.execute()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute

    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv

    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

    output = self.handle(*args, **options)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle

    return self.handle_noargs(**options)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 110, in handle_noargs

    emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 189, in emit_post_sync_signal

    interactive=interactive, db=db)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 172, in send

    response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 73, in create_superuser

    call_command("createsuperuser", interactive=True, database=db)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 150, in call_command

    return klass.execute(*args, **defaults)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

    output = self.handle(*args, **options)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 70, in handle

    default_username = get_default_username()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 105, in get_default_username

    default_username = get_system_username()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 85, in get_system_username

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

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

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