How to create a user in Django?

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):
    userName = request.REQUEST.get('username', None)
    userPass = request.REQUEST.get('password', None)
    userMail = request.REQUEST.get('email', None)

    # TODO: check if already existed

    **user = User.objects.create_user(userName, userMail, userPass)**
    user.save()

    return render_to_response('home.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Any help?

Answer

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='[e-mail]',
                                 password='glass onion')