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On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 10:12:08 PM UTC+8, Daniel Roseman wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 06:19:47 UTC, Max Nathaniel Ho wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am following this tutorial ( >> http://musings.tinbrain.net/blog/2014/sep/21/registration-django-easy-way/) >> to create a user registration model in Django. >> >> I understand that the class UserManager is overwriting the default User >> model. However, I do not understand this particular part. >> >> The official Django Documentation doesn't explain what this means - It >> merely shows the full code. >> >> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/auth/customizing/ >> >> Need some clarification as to what's going on here. What is self.model in >> this example and what does it do? >> >> def create_user(self, email, password, **kwargs): >> user = self.model(email=self.normalize_email(email), >> is_active=True, **kwargs) >> user.set_password(password) >> user.save(using=self._db) >> return user >> >> > > It is not doing any such thing as "overwriting the default User model". > That is a Manager: your first port of call should have been the > documentation for model managers, which is here: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/db/managers/ > > If there's anything you don't understand after having read that, please > come back and ask a more specific question. > -- > DR. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/f10f4717-e9fd-4080-99f5-b268a1eccbf9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
