Django custom user, how to get signals to work in 1.5

Question

I'm using Django 1.5, which allows custom users. I already got the custom users to work on its own. I'd like to add a new model Blah whenever a custom user is created (aka use signals to do this).

currently, I have in signals.py

from group.models import Blah
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from customuser.models import EmailUser
from django.dispatch import receiver


@receiver(post_save, sender=EmailUser)
def user_saved(sender=None, instance=None, **kwargs):
    user = kw["instance"]
        print("Request finished!")
        if kw["created"]:
            blah = Blah(user=user)
            blah.save()

in settings.py:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'customuser.EmailUser'

As of now, when I'm using Django admin to create a new email user. After I create the EmailUser though, it does not create a new Blah.

I referenced: Django 1.5 custom user model - signals limitation Following this method did not seem to work.

Answer 1

replace user = kw["instance"] and kw["created"] with kwargs["instance"] and kwargs["created"] and instead of

def user_saved(sender=None, instance=None, **kwargs):

use :

def user_saved(sender, **kwargs):

another thing I do is instead of using the @reciever view wrapper I put the following code at the end of my signals.py file.

post_save.connect(user_saved, sender=EmailUser)

One more thing is to make sure you import the signals file in your urls.py file as well so they actually get loaded.

from yourApp import signals