Install django-currentuser:

pip install django-currentuser

Add it to the middleware classes in your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE = (
    ...,
    'django_currentuser.middleware.ThreadLocalUserMiddleware',
)

Then use it in a project:

from django_currentuser.middleware import (
    get_current_user, get_current_authenticated_user)

# As model field:
from django_currentuser.db.models import CurrentUserField
class Foo(models.Model):
    created_by = CurrentUserField()
    updated_by = CurrentUserField(on_update=True)

Both libraries serve the same purpose, but be aware of these differences (as of django-cuser v.2017.3.16):

• django-currentuser's CurrentUserField stores the reference to the request user at initialization of the model instance and still allows you to overwrite the value before saving. django-cuser sets the value in the pre_save handler of the field just before writing it to the database. Intermediate changes will be ignored.
• django-cuser deletes the user reference from the thread after finishing a response and it will therefore no longer be available for testing purposes.

• 0.5.3 - add support for Django 3.2 and Python 3.9
• 0.5.2 - Fixed Django deprecation warning about using ugettext_lazy()
• 0.5.1 - add support for Django 3.1 and Python 3.8
• 0.5.0 - add support for update on save (thank you @felubra) - no longer build on Python 3.5, deprecated
• 0.4.3 - add support for Django 3.0
• 0.4.2 - Minor fix for supported Django and Python versions
• 0.4.0 - update supported versions - drop support for Python 3.4 - drop support for Django 2.0 - add support for Python 3.7 - add support for Django 2.2 - update tox3travis.py to not loose deployment feature
• 0.3.4 - Use public Travis for packaging to remove dependency on outdated build system
• 0.3.3 - drop Python 3.7 support due to build process problems
• 0.3.1 - attempt to add Python 3.7 support
• 0.3.0 - update supported versions according to https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions and https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches - drop support for Python 3.2
• 0.2.3 - support custom user model, drop Django 1.10 support
• 0.2.2 - support Django 2.0
• 0.2.1 - version fixes #9 - support Django 1.11.x and not just 1.11.0
• 0.2.0 - New middleclass format - Adapt to new object based middle class format of Django 1.10+ - Drop support for deprecated Django versions 1.8 and 1.9
• 0.1.1 - minor release - suppress warning for passed kwargs as long as they match the defaults (avoids them being printed during running tests when fields are cloned)
• 0.1.0 - initial release - provides middleware + methods to set + retrieve reference of currently logged in user from thread - provides CurrentUserField that by default stores the currently logged in user - supports Django 1.10, 1.11 on python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 - as per the official django docs

As an open source project, we welcome contributions.

The code lives on github.

Please open an issue on github or provide a pull request whether for code or for the documentation.

For non-trivial changes, we kindly ask you to open an issue, as it might be rejected. However, if the diff of a pull request better illustrates the point, feel free to make it a pull request anyway.

• for code changes
  • it must have tests covering the change. You might be asked to cover missing scenarios
  • the latest flake8 will be run and shouldn't produce any warning
  • if the change is significant enough, documentation has to be provided

To trigger the packaging, run make release on the master branch with a changed version number.

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
for version in 3.6 3.7; do
  py=python$version
  sudo apt-get -y install ${py} ${py}-dev
done

As it is a Django extension, it follows Django's own Code of Conduct. As there is no mailing list yet, please just email one of the main authors (see setup.py file or github contributors)