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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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. 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.
