How to create a user in Django?

Question

I'm trying to create a new User in a Django project by the following code, but the highlighted line fires an exception.

def createUser(request):     userName = request.REQUEST.get('username', None)     userPass = request.REQUEST.get('password', None)     userMail = request.REQUEST.get('email', None)      # TODO: check if already existed      **user = User.objects.create_user(userName, userMail, userPass)**     user.save()      return render_to_response('home.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request)) 

Any help?

Answer 1

The correct way to create a user in Django is to use the create_user function. This will handle the hashing of the password, etc..

from django.contrib.auth.models import User user = User.objects.create_user(username='john',                                  email='[email protected]',                                  password='glass onion')