from django.conf import settings from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured # A setting that can be used in foreign key declarations AUTH_USER_MODEL = getattr(settings, "AUTH_USER_MODEL", "auth.User") # Two additional settings that are useful in South migrations when # specifying the user model in the FakeORM try: AUTH_USER_APP_LABEL, AUTH_USER_MODEL_NAME = AUTH_USER_MODEL.rsplit(".", 1) except ValueError: raise ImproperlyConfigured( "AUTH_USER_MODEL must be of the form" " 'app_label.model_name'" )