Django 1.5 custom user model - signals limitation

Question

It\'s written in the doc that:

Another limitation of custom User models is that you can’t use django.contrib.auth.get_user_model() as the sender or target

Answer 1

You can simply use the setting AUTH_USER_MODEL or any model as a string, e.g. 'users.MyCustomUser':

def user_post_save_handler(**kwargs):
    # do something
post_save.connect(user_post_save_handler, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)