How to create a user in Django?

Question

I\'m trying to create a new User in a Django project by the following code, but the highlighted line fires an exception.

def createUser(request):
    userNam         


        

Answer 1

The correct way to create a user in Django is to use the create_user function. This will handle the hashing of the password, etc..

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
user = User.objects.create_user(username='john',
                                 email='jlennon@beatles.com',
                                 password='glass onion')