No such file or directory error when using Python's startapp in Cygwin

Question

I'm trying my hand on Python. I've installed Python 2.7 in Cygwin and have also installed Django 1.9.

I've started a project and I'm in the process of creating my first app but I'm getting this stack trace:

python manage.py startapp newsFeed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/core/manage                                                                                                                ment/__init__.py", line 330, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/core/manage                                                                                                                ment/__init__.py", line 304, in execute
    django.setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/__init__.py", line 18, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/apps/registry.py", line 115, in populate
    app_config.ready()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/admin/apps.py", line 22, in ready
    self.module.autodiscover()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/adm                                                                                                                in/__init__.py", line 24, in autodiscover
    autodiscover_modules('admin', register_to=site)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/utils/modul                                                                                                                e_loading.py", line 50, in autodiscover_modules
    import_module('%s.%s' % (app_config.name, module_to_search))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/admin.py", line 7, in <module>
    from django.contrib.auth.forms import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/forms.py", line 259, in <module>
    class SetPasswordForm(forms.Form):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/forms.py", line 269, in SetPasswordForm
    help_text=password_validation.password_validators_help_text_html())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/aut                                                                                                                h/password_validation.py", line 84, in password_validators_help_text_html
    help_texts = password_validators_help_texts(password_validators)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/aut                                                                                                                h/password_validation.py", line 73, in password_validators_help_texts
    password_validators = get_default_password_validators()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/utils/lru_cache.py", line 101, in wrapper
    result = user_function(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/aut                                                                                                                h/password_validation.py", line 20, in get_default_password_validators
    return get_password_validators(settings.AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/aut                                                                                                                h/password_validation.py", line 31, in get_password_validators
    validators.append(klass(**validator.get('OPTIONS', {})))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/aut                                                                                                                h/password_validation.py", line 154, in __init__
    common_passwords_lines = open(password_list_path).readlines()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/common-passwords.txt.gz'

I've had a look around Google and Stack Overflow but I'm unable to find the answer that I need.

Is there another Python package that I need to install or perhaps a Cygwin utility that I missed?

Answer 1

I was missing the common-passwords.txt.gz.

Found a copy here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/cracklib/common-passwords.txt.gz/5e35a78582c233f8b703f1dabf264788/

Installed and copied it over to the path '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.9-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/' and it worked.