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Merge pull request #1457 from jaimeirurzun/master 

Clarified meaning of models.User.is_authenticated()
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Tim Graham 2013-08-08 07:27:08 -07:00
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Always returns ``True`` (as opposed to
``AnonymousUser.is_authenticated()`` which always returns ``False``).
This is a way to tell if the user has been authenticated. This does not
imply any permissions, and doesn't check if the user is active - it
only indicates that ``request.user`` has been populated by the
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware` with
a :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object representing the
currently logged-in user.
imply any permissions, and doesn't check if the user is active or has
a valid session. Even though normally you will call this method on
``request.user`` to find out whether it has been populated by the
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware`
(representing the currently logged-in user), you should know this method
returns ``True`` for any :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User`
instance.
.. method:: get_full_name()