authenticate always returns None,Django

Question

I want to add the authentication functionality in my application. I have below code snippet:

user = User.objects.create_user('jkd')
user.set_password('space')
user.save
user = authenticate(username='jkd', password='space')
print "User:",user

It always prints the "User:None". I have also added below in my settings.py file:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', # default
     # any other authentication backends
)

I have gone through answers of same question in different thread but it doesn't help me.

Are you sure your user is actually getting created successfully? Also when saving the user don't you have to call user.save() instead of user.save? — Georgina S
– Georgina S, Commented Apr 21, 2017 at 5:35
Yes.After user.save I have put the print like: print user.It displays the user name that is added. — space earth
– space earth, Commented Apr 21, 2017 at 5:37

Thai Tran · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-21 05:40:16Z

1

There is typo in your code, thus the record has not been saved yet

Change from

user.save

to

user.save()

answered Apr 21, 2017 at 5:40

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Thai Tran Over a year ago

Georgina S should have the credit as well, cos he gave you the hint first (I just realized about that). I didn't look at the comments when posting this answer though

space earth Over a year ago

Yes I have up voted her comment.Is there any other way by which i can give credit to her?

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