Error importing User from django auth models

[eronmedeiros]

Hey there,
I'm getting an error and I don't know why it is showing up.
It is a new django project. I'm running everything normally.

Except, on every code that imports:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

It says:
User model imported from django.contrib.auth.models pylint(imported-auth-user)

It shows no error code, so I can't even remove it like I did with function doc string errors, in the .pylintrc file.

[carlio]

@eronmedeiros I think that's because that error message was missing the decorator. Can you try installing pylint-django from this branch and see if it fixes things? https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/tree/bugfix/278-add-auth-user-error-code

@atodorov I think my branch here will fix things: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/tree/bugfix/278-add-auth-user-error-code

[atodorov]

@atodorov I think my branch here will fix things: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/tree/bugfix/278-add-auth-user-error-code

@carlio I've merged this into master. Closing this issue.

[gdowdy3]

Hey guys, I encountered the same error and disabled it using the error number provided by the bug fix described above. So thanks for providing that error number. 👍

I'm wondering, though: why is that error message appearing in the first place? The line of code

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

comes straight from the Django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/auth/default/

Why should it give an error?

[atodorov]

comes straight from the Django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/auth/default/

Why should it give an error?

#244

FTR Django doesn't always document or even follow its practices.

[IRezig]

Hello guys,
I had this issue too and I fixed it by

1. Installing Pylint
   pip install pylint-django

2. create .pylintrc file (in racin of your project) and add:
   --load-plugins pylint_django
   Hope that help you

Bonne journée

[cyclops26]

Hey guys, I encountered the same error and disabled it using the error number provided by the bug fix described above. So thanks for providing that error number. 👍

I'm wondering, though: why is that error message appearing in the first place? The line of code

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

comes straight from the Django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/auth/default/

Why should it give an error?

@gdowdy3 I believe it might be because they recognize that people may replace the User model with their own custom model.

Tucked away in the docs is this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/auth/customizing/#referencing-the-user-model

Not saying that the other documentation doesn't need updating, but this would be my suspicion.