From e18188603a0b28932134c9b7244eb68790ca4e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PCoder Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 11:13:57 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Decode username back to string from bytes after encode --- membership/models.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/membership/models.py b/membership/models.py index e5454839..b572833d 100644 --- a/membership/models.py +++ b/membership/models.py @@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ def assign_username(user): # Try to come up with a username first_name, last_name = get_first_and_last_name(user.name) - user.username = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', first_name + last_name).encode('ascii', 'ignore') + user.username = unicodedata.normalize( + 'NFKD', first_name + last_name + ).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii', 'ignore') user.username = "".join([char for char in user.username if char.isalnum()]).lower() if user.username.strip() == "": try: