How to create user from django shell

Question

When i create user from django-admin user password\'s are encrypted . but when i create user from django shell user-pasword is saved in plain text . Example :

Answer 1

Answer for those using django 1.9 or greater since from django.contrib.auth.models import User has been deprecated (possibly even earlier) but definitely by 1.9.

Instead do: in bash:

python manage.py shell

In the python shell to create a user with a password:

from django.apps import apps
User = apps.get_model('user', 'User')
me = User.objects.create(first_name='john', email='johnsemail@email.com') # other_info='other_info', etc.
me.set_password('WhateverIwant')  # this will be saved hashed and encrypted
me.save()

If coming from an API you should probably apply a Form as such:

import json
User = get_model('User')
class UserEditForm(BaseModelForm):
        """This allows for validity checking..."""

        class Meta:
            model = User
            fields = [
                'first_name', 'password', 'last_name',
                'dob', # etc...
            ]
# collect the data from the API:
post_data = request.POST.dict()
data = {
'first_name': post_data['firstName'],
'last_name': post_data['firstName'],
'password': post_data['password'], etc.
}
dudette = User()  # (this is for create if its edit you can get the User by pk with User.objects.get(pk=kwargs.pk))
form = UserEditForm(data, request.FILES, instance=dudette)
if form.is_valid():
    dudette = form.save()
else:
    dudette = {'success': False, 'message': unicode(form.errors)}
return json.dumps(dudette.json())  # assumes you have a json serializer on the model called def json(self):