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A custom Django user model for best practices email-based login.

Project description

This project provides a custom user model that improves on Django’s default by making a few modern and international changes.

  • Uses email as the username to simplify login for users

  • Replace first_name and last_name with international friendly short_name and full_name fields

The project also provides mix-in classes to make building custom User models easier.

For an explanation of why and how the project was built, please see the Project Rationale.

For information about getting started, please refer to the quickstart documentation.

For information about how to help with the project, please see the contributing documentation.

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