From 047394f79c2cbc6cf44684a1f0d17aba1ddfe1c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Holtermann <info@markusholtermann.eu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:06:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #21852 -- Make migration writer serialize iterators

---
 django/db/migrations/writer.py  | 11 +++++++++++
 tests/migrations/test_writer.py |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/django/db/migrations/writer.py b/django/db/migrations/writer.py
index 355ad3d90e..da56d0c171 100644
--- a/django/db/migrations/writer.py
+++ b/django/db/migrations/writer.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import datetime
 import inspect
 import decimal
+import collections
 from importlib import import_module
 import os
 import types
@@ -257,6 +258,16 @@ class MigrationWriter(object):
             if hasattr(value, "__module__"):
                 module = value.__module__
                 return "%s.%s" % (module, value.__name__), set(["import %s" % module])
+        # Other iterables
+        elif isinstance(value, collections.Iterable):
+            imports = set()
+            strings = []
+            for item in value:
+                item_string, item_imports = cls.serialize(item)
+                imports.update(item_imports)
+                strings.append(item_string)
+            format = "(%s)" if len(strings) > 1 else "(%s,)"
+            return format % (", ".join(strings)), imports
         # Uh oh.
         else:
             raise ValueError("Cannot serialize: %r\nThere are some values Django cannot serialize into migration files.\nFor more, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#migration-serializing" % value)
diff --git a/tests/migrations/test_writer.py b/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
index 8856e8fbb3..5934f8cf47 100644
--- a/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
+++ b/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
@@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ class WriterTests(TestCase):
                 set(["from django.conf import settings"]),
             )
         )
+        self.assertSerializedResultEqual(
+            ((x, x*x) for x in range(3)),
+            (
+                "((0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 4))",
+                set(),
+            )
+        )
 
     def test_simple_migration(self):
         """