Ticket #5605: 5605_new.patch

django/contrib/auth/models.py

@@ -105 +105 @@
     def create_user(self, username, email, password=None):
         "Creates and saves a User with the given username, e-mail and password."
         now = datetime.datetime.now()
-        user = self.model(None, username, '', '', email.strip().lower(), 'placeholder', False, True, False, now, now)
+        # Make only the domain lowercase. 
+        parts = email.strip().split('@', 1) 
+        if len(parts) > 1: 
+            parts[1] = parts[1].lower() 
+        email = '@'.join(parts) 
+        user = self.model(None, username, '', '', email, 'placeholder', False, True, False, now, now)
         if password:
             user.set_password(password)
         else:

django/contrib/auth/tests/forms.py

@@ -219 +219 @@
 >>> form.cleaned_data['email']
 u'jsmith3@example.com'
 
+# bug #5605, preserve the case of the user name (before the @ in the email address) 
+# when creating a user.
+>>> user = User.objects.create_user('test2', 'tesT@EXAMple.com', 'test') 
+>>> user.email 
+'tesT@example.com' 
+>>> user = User.objects.create_user('test3', 'tesT', 'test') 
+>>> user.email 
+'tesT' 
+
 """

docs/topics/auth.txt

@@ -291 +291 @@
 
         Creates, saves and returns a :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User`.
         The :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.username`,
-        :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.email` and
-        :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.password` are set as given, and the
-        :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` gets ``is_active=True``.
-
+        :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.password` are set as given,
+        the domain portion of :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.email`
+        gets lowercased, and the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` gets
+        ``is_active=True``.
+        
         If no password is provided,
         :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password()` will
         be called.