The conflict between django-cities-light and django-modeltranslation

[egregors]

Hi. I found the strange behavior of django-cities-light and django-modeltranslation when they are installed together.

If I try to make cities_light --force-import-all an error occurs:

manage.py@laowaiboard > cities_light --force-import-all
bash -cl "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/bin/python /Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/helpers/pycharm/django_manage.py cities_light --force-import-all /Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard"
INFO Downloading http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt into /Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cities_light/data/countryInfo.txt
INFO Importing countryInfo.txt
/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/autoslug/utils.py:31: RuntimeWarning: Argument <type 'str'> is not an unicode object. Passing an encoded string will likely have unexpected results.
  return django_slugify(unidecode(value))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/helpers/pycharm/django_manage.py", line 41, in <module>
    run_module(manage_file, None, '__main__', True)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 176, in run_module
    fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 82, in _run_module_code
    mod_name, mod_fname, mod_loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 338, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 330, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 393, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 444, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cities_light/management/commands/cities_light.py", line 167, in handle
    self.country_import(items)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cities_light/management/commands/cities_light.py", line 254, in country_import
    self.save(country)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cities_light/management/commands/cities_light.py", line 501, in save
    model.save()
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 734, in save
    force_update=force_update, update_fields=update_fields)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 771, in save_base
    update_fields=update_fields, raw=raw, using=using)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 201, in send
    response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)
  File "/Users/vadim/Documents/Bitbucket/laowaiboard/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/autoslug/fields.py", line 304, in modeltranslation_update_slugs
    populate_from_value = getattr(instance, populate_from_localized)
AttributeError: 'Country' object has no attribute 'name_ascii_en'

Process finished with exit code 1

But If you comment out the line «modeltranslation» in INSTALLED_APPS, cities_light --force-import-all works as well.

[armicron]

The problem is here
django_autoslug assumes that if you have modeltranslation in INSTALLED_APPS then you registered Country model for translation

Also, I found your workaround link
I added issue

[egregors]

Thank you. I fixed it, like you suggested.