[Django]-Custom django-admin commands – AttributeError: 'Command' object has no attribute 'stdout'

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It looks like the mapping to self.stdout is a very new change in Django’s trunk version, committed in May. If you’re running the 1.2 release or earlier, this won’t work – and you should be using the earlier documentation.

👤Daniel Roseman

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Since this is the first hit on Google I’ll write another solution to another problem with the same error message:
If your class Command implements __init__, it has to call __init__ of the superclass.

This will work:

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

class Command(BaseCommand):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Command, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        ... do stuff

This won’t work:

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

class Command(BaseCommand):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
       ... do stuff
👤Willi Müller

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There are two easy solutions here. The simple one is to simply convert all of your self.stdout lines to print statements instead.

That’s an OK solution and you can do it.

The better solution, since self.stdout is set up in the execute() method, is to…run the execute() method.

So instead of:

Command().handle()

Do:

Command().execute()

That’ll set up the self.stdout variable correctly and you’ll be off and running.

👤mlissner

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