A better way to import AUTH_USER_MODEL in Django 1.5

Question

I\'m trying to make plugable apps more resilient under Django 1.5 where you now have a custom definable user model.

When adding foreign keys to a model I can do:

Answer 1

One way you could do it is:

try:
    from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
except ImportError: # django < 1.5
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
else:
    User = get_user_model()