On Friday 09 June 2006 18:02, Marcin Kaszynski wrote:
> I just spent some time looking for a way to extend the User model in
> a way that would allow me to:
>
> 1. add fields to the model itself,
> 2. use the standard admin interface to edit them,
> 3. keep changes to Django minimal and generic.
>
> I came up with something that actually works well and is generic
> enough to extend any other model: I changed ModelBase.__new__ to call
> a function that modifies attributes of the new class before it gets
> created. The function is defined in project settings file, so it is
> easy to have different User models in different projects without
> further changes to Django code.
This is actually quite interesting. You would need to alter your patch
a bit so that it works for models with 'app_label' defined -- the
"model_module.__name__.split('.')[-2]" logic should exist in only one
place. Other than that it seems quite good -- maybe you should create
a ticket.
Luke
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