On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Brent <brentba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am attempting to follow this tutorial:
>
> http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2008/08/21/extending-the-django-user-model-with-inheritance/
>
> But I am receiving this error:
> AttributeError at /login/
> 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'DoesNotExist'
>
> Here is my stack trace:
> http://dpaste.com/565795/
>
> I tried changing the CUSTOM_USER_MODEL field to every permutation of
> paths that could possibly lead to my CustomUser class, but they all
> gave the same error.
>


This is not good design. If you want to store some extra fields for a User -
i would define just another model called ProfileDetails, FK it to User and
use it as such.

Btw, i somehow never liked model-subclassing; but i come from a rdbms
background.

-V

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