#5921: [PATCH] Common parent class for User and AnonymousUser
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Component: Contrib apps
Version: SVN | Keywords:
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 1
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Howdy!
While I know of and respect Django's deference to Pythonic duck-typing, it
would be helpful for {{{isinstance(obj, klass)}}} to confirm whether an
object is a user or not, regardless of authentication. However User
inherits solely from models.Model and !AnonymousUser inherits from object
-- they have no common lineage despite common interface.
This patch creates an abstract parent class for both User and
!AnonymousUser so a check for {{{isinstance(obj,
django.contrib.auth.models.UserClass)}}} returns True whether the user is
authenticated or not.
It provides this functionality without any other modification to the
external interface, so there are no side-effects or other impacts of this
change. I've tested it against the Django test suite and it passes.
-jag
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