Django Unleashed

24.5.2 The createuser and createsuperuser Commands

The createuser and createsuperuser commands are much more involved than the createtag command, but the principle is the same. In /user/management/commands/ we create a file called createuser.py for the createuser command and a file called createsuperuser.py for the createsuperuser command. In both files, we declare a Command class, which inherits from BaseCommand. Our goal is to define the add_arguments() and handle() methods.

We take this a step further and imitate the createsuperuser.py command supplied by auth. The command has two ways of working: interactively and non-interactively. If you checkout a commit in the git repo from before Chapter 22, you’ll be able to see this for yourself. To ...