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    <p>I'm working on a Django 1.5 project and I have a custom user model (let's call it <code>CustomUser</code>). Another app (SomeApp) needs to reference this custom user model. For the purposes of ForeignKey and such, the Django documentation says to use</p> <pre><code>User = settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL </code></pre> <p>However, some functions in SomeApp.models need to access what would have formerly been known as <code>User.objects</code>. But User is now a string and not a class, so <code>User.objects</code> fails. The alternative would be</p> <pre><code>from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model User = get_user_model() </code></pre> <p>Which works in other modules, but when I use this in models.py of SomeApp, Django raises an error:</p> <blockquote> <p>ImproperlyConfigured("AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model '%s' that has not been installed" % settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)</p> </blockquote> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>EDIT 1 - Traceback:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "&lt;console&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt; File "...\django-badger\badger\__init__.py", line 7, in &lt;module&gt; from badger.models import Badge, Award, Progress File "...\django-badger\badger\models.py", line 26, in &lt;module&gt; User = get_user_model() File "...\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\__init__.py", line 127, in get_user_model raise ImproperlyConfigured("AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model '%s' that has not been installed" % settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL) ImproperlyConfigured: AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'MyApp.AuthUser' that has not been installed </code></pre> <p>EDIT 2 - INSTALLED_APPS settings:</p> <pre><code>INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'south', 'MyApp', # this is where my user model is defined 'SomeApp', # I try to use get_user_model() in this app's models.py; doesn't work. 'social_auth', ) </code></pre>
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    2. COHow did you define `AUTH_USER_MODEL` in your settings? In which application is the User and what is the class name for it?
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    3. CO@matino - yes, it is defined in the settings. get_user_model() works fine in all other files except models.py. My custom user model AuthUser is defined in MyApp (in this example)
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