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

[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()

[Jhoan Martinez Silva]

Worked great, adding to setting.py, huge thanks

[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',
]

Because I always get "Name 'six' is not defined"
And then what do I have to migrate ?

[Sreejith Muralidharan]

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

[Julien]

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