I am looking over this website but just can’t seem to figure out how to do this as it’s not working. I need to check if the current site user is logged in (authenticated), and am trying:
request.user.is_authenticated
despite being sure that the user is logged in, it returns just:
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I’m able to do other requests (from the first section in the url above), such as:
request.user.is_active
which returns a successful response.
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Answer
Update for Django 1.10+
is_authenticated is now an attribute in Django 1.10.
if request.user.is_authenticated:
# do something if the user is authenticated
NB: The method was removed in Django 2.0.
For Django 1.9 and older
is_authenticated is a function. You should call it like
if request.user.is_authenticated():
# do something if the user is authenticated
As Peter Rowell pointed out, what may be tripping you up is that in the default Django template language, you don’t tack on parenthesis to call functions. So you may have seen something like this in template code:
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
However, in Python code, it is indeed a method in the User class.