auth.User model doesn't exist

[adminq80@…]

Hello all, I was trying to follow the documentation and importing User from auth module but it didn't work, so I used auth.get_user_model() instead. Would you update the documentation accordingly, please?

The documentation link that has the error is ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing/

I am using Django version 1.6.4 final

Sincerely,
Abdul

[adminq80@…]

I modifyed line 183 and line 188 from User to get_user_model

[abdul]

The documentation is now updated.

Sincerely,
Abdul

[Aymeric Augustin]

• Importing the User model certainly works; if you run into trouble, please see TicketClosingReasons/UseSupportChannels for ways to get help.
• Using get_user_model() in a ForeignKey declaration is wrong and will raise an exception in Django 1.7; if you want to support custom user models, the proper idiom is ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
• The change proposed above wasn't committed, so the ticket should have stayed open until someone had either committed the change or rejected the ticket — which I'm doing now.

[abdul]

I am using Django 1.6.4 and I tried from django.contrib.auth import User and it didn't work for me. I propose to modify the importing path to look like from django.contrib.auth.models import User.

Sincerely,
Abdul

[Aymeric Augustin]

Oh, yeah, there's a typo in the import line. I was misled by the suggestion to switch to get_user_model().

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 87776859affc45b9b485d8377c046dd464aaeef4:

Fixed #22575 -- Fixed typo in docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt.

Thanks adminq80 at gmail.com.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 6a6f294f518a96334c73b2e5f934cdd2f0feda7e:

[1.7.x] Fixed #22575 -- Fixed typo in docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt.

Thanks adminq80 at gmail.com.

Backport of 87776859af from master

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In cddbaca6976a1e6faba8e846b87e27b35e268198:

[1.6.x] Fixed #22575 -- Fixed typo in docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt.

Thanks adminq80 at gmail.com.

Backport of 87776859af from master

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 41ab97b6a4e785a35b6199134aad39091b6b1aab:

[1.5.x] Fixed #22575 -- Fixed typo in docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt.

Thanks adminq80 at gmail.com.

Backport of 87776859af from master