Entries published on November 24, 2007

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User profiles

Django, as you hopefully already know, provides a way to store additional information related to a User via the mechanism of setting up a site-specific user profile model, and supports this directly via the get_profile() method on every User object.

By way of supporting this, back in version 0.2 of django-registration I added the ability to specify a callback function which, upon creating a new User, could also create a default site-specific profile for that User; at the time it seemed like a good way to handle the common situation of wanting to set up a profile …

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