Question

Was on a Linux machine, working on a Django website. Recently got a new computer and am running windows 8 on it. I am using PyCharm, and am trying to start the local server up for the first time. The last dependency I installed was zinnia, and now it is giving me this odd error. This is the output that PyCharm is giving me before not working.

Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method Command.inner_run of       
<django.contrib.staticfiles.management.commands.runserver.Command object at 0x029643F0>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py",     
line 92, in inner_run
self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 280, in 
validate
num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\validation.py", line 35, in 
get_validation_errors
for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\loading.py", line 166, in 
get_app_errors
self._populate()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\loading.py", line 72, in _populate
self.load_app(app_name, True)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\loading.py", line 96, in load_app
models = import_module('.models', app_name)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py", line 35, in  
import_module
__import__(name)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django_blog_zinnia-0.12.3-py2.7.egg\zinnia\models
\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
from zinnia.models.entry import Entry
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django_blog_zinnia-0.12.3-py2.7.egg\zinnia\models
\entry.py", line 23, in <module>
from zinnia.models.author import Author

File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django_blog_zinnia-0.12.3-py2.7.egg\zinnia\models
\author.py", line 10, in <module>
class Author(User):
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 123, in __new__
raise TypeError("%s cannot proxy the swapped model '%s'." % (name, base_meta.swapped))
TypeError: Author cannot proxy the swapped model 'main.MyUser'.

No correct solution

OTHER TIPS

Although the error suggests that you are using the newest version of zinnia (12.3) it seem that's not the case. If you look at the models/authors.py file of the current version you will see:

class Author(get_user_model()):
    """
    Proxy model around :class:`django.contrib.auth.models.get_user_model`.
    """

which will deal with Django 1.5's custom user model. The traceback you supplied has the following:

class Author(User):

which is the old approach. Have a look here for more information:

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