BUG: Fix str/unicode warnings from SQLAlchemy on python 2.

When running with `reset_db=True` on python 2, several SQLAlchemy operations
were performed with bytes where unicode was expected, resulting in
warnings like the following.

```
/home/ssanderson/.virtualenvs/jupyterhub/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py:573:
SAWarning: Unicode type received non-unicodebind param value.
  param.append(processors[key](compiled_params[key]))
```

Fixes a few stray non-unicode literals and adds a unicode safe wrapper
for `getpass.getuser`.

jupyterhub/app.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
-import getpass
 import io
 import logging
 import os
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ from . import orm
 from ._data import DATA_FILES_PATH
 from .utils import (
     url_path_join, random_hex, TimeoutError,
-    ISO8601_ms, ISO8601_s,
+    ISO8601_ms, ISO8601_s, getuser_unicode,
 )
 # classes for config
 from .auth import Authenticator, PAMAuthenticator
@@ -353,7 +352,7 @@ class JupyterHubApp(Application):
         """More informative log messages for failed filesystem access"""
         path = os.path.abspath(path)
         parent, fname = os.path.split(path)
-        user = getpass.getuser()
+        user = getuser_unicode()
         if not os.path.isdir(parent):
             self.log.error("Directory %s does not exist", parent)
         if os.path.exists(parent) and not os.access(parent, os.W_OK):
@@ -385,7 +384,7 @@ class JupyterHubApp(Application):
                     port=self.hub_port,
                     base_url=self.hub_prefix,
                     cookie_secret=self.cookie_secret,
-                    cookie_name='jupyter-hub-token',
+                    cookie_name=u'jupyter-hub-token',
                 )
             )
             self.db.add(self.hub)
@@ -405,7 +404,7 @@ class JupyterHubApp(Application):
             # add current user as admin if there aren't any others
             admins = db.query(orm.User).filter(orm.User.admin==True)
             if admins.first() is None:
-                self.admin_users.add(getpass.getuser())
+                self.admin_users.add(getuser_unicode())
 
         for name in self.admin_users:
             # ensure anyone specified as admin in config is admin in db
@@ -511,7 +510,7 @@ class JupyterHubApp(Application):
         self.proxy.public_server.port = self.port
         self.proxy.api_server.ip = self.proxy_api_ip
         self.proxy.api_server.port = self.proxy_api_port
-        self.proxy.api_server.base_url = '/api/routes/'
+        self.proxy.api_server.base_url = u'/api/routes/'
         if self.proxy.auth_token is None:
             self.proxy.auth_token = self.proxy_auth_token
         self.db.commit()

jupyterhub/tests/conftest.py

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 # Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
-import getpass
 import logging
 
 from pytest import fixture
 from tornado import ioloop
 
 from .. import orm
+from ..utils import getuser_unicode
 
 from .mocking import MockHubApp
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def db():
     if _db is None:
         _db = orm.new_session('sqlite:///:memory:', echo=True)
         user = orm.User(
-            name=getpass.getuser(),
+            name=getuser_unicode(),
             server=orm.Server(),
         )
         hub = orm.Hub(

jupyterhub/utils.py

@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
 import binascii
+import getpass
 import errno
 import os
 import socket
+
+from six import text_type
 from tornado import web, gen, ioloop
 from tornado.httpclient import AsyncHTTPClient, HTTPError
 from tornado.log import app_log
@@ -21,6 +24,14 @@ except NameError:
     class TimeoutError(Exception):
         pass
 
+
+def getuser_unicode():
+    """
+    Call getpass.getuser, ensuring that the output is returned as unicode.
+    """
+    return text_type(getpass.getuser())
+
+
 def random_port():
     """get a single random port"""
     sock = socket.socket()