AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'accounts.User' that has not been installed

Question

I\'m using a custom user model, extended with AbstractUser. Here\'s my models.py:

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals

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Answer 1

I had the same error when I tried to get the auth user by writing: User = get_user_model() at the top of my models.py:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

User = get_user_model()

class User(AbstractUser):
    is_official = models.BooleanField('official status', default=False)
    is_distro = models.BooleanField('distro status', default=False)
    is_subscriber = models.BooleanField('subscriber status', default=False)

I was able to resolve it by moving the User = get_user_model() below the User model definition, which makes sense as the get_user_model() getting called at the top of the User model definition meant it was referencing a model that doesn't exist yet. Here is the code layout that worked:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

class User(AbstractUser):
    is_official = models.BooleanField('official status', default=False)
    is_distro = models.BooleanField('distro status', default=False)
    is_subscriber = models.BooleanField('subscriber status', default=False)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username

User = get_user_model()

You may not have this exact layout but I guess the main point is To Not Reference A Model Before Its Definition In The Same File, This Is Why Import Statements Come At The Top.