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Discussion on: Create Advanced User Sign Up View in Django | Step-by-Step

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irfan harun •

Hi there,

I just downloaded the code from github and i keep getting the following error :
cannot import name 'six' from 'django.utils'.

Please help me resolve the issue. Thanks

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Rashid •

Hey! That's removed in Django 3.0. django-cors-headers supports Django up until 2.1 right now. So, try to use six library instead of

django.utils.six
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Sreejith Muralidharan •

If you are using Django3,

pip install six

add six to the settings.py INSTALLED_APPS and migrate.

from django.contrib.auth.tokens import PasswordResetTokenGenerator
from six import text_type

class AccountActivationTokenGenerator(PasswordResetTokenGenerator):
    def _make_hash_value(self, user, timestamp):
        return (
            text_type(user.pk) + text_type(timestamp) +
            text_type(user.profile.signup_confirmation)
        )

account_activation_token = AccountActivationTokenGenerator()
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Jhoan Martinez Silva •

Worked great, adding to setting.py, huge thanks

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Julien •

hey this doesn't work for me... you say add six to settings.py, do you mean like this ?

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'six',
]
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Because I always get "Name 'six' is not defined"
And then what do I have to migrate ?

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Sreejith Muralidharan •

That’s right. Can you try pip freeze and check, six was installed correctly?

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Julien •

I managed to fix it after a few tries, so it's good now :)