Django Test Client does not create a user object but creates a anonymous user object

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I have implemented user registration for my project and I am indeed able to find the object created using User.objects.get() from the Django shell client.

But when running tests it seems that an AnonymousUser object is created instead of a User object.

I have the following code;

forms.py;

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm

class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
    """
    Extends Django's UserCreationForm
    """
    email_exists_message = "A user with that email id already exists."
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
    first_name = forms.CharField(required=True)
    last_name = forms.CharField()

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ("first_name", "last_name", "username", "email", "password1", "password2")

    def clean_email(self):
        email = self.cleaned_data["email"]
        try: 
            User._default_manager.get(email=email)
        except User.DoesNotExist:
            return email
        raise forms.ValidationError(
            self.email_exists_message,
            code='duplicate_email',
        )

    def save(self, commit=True):
        user = super(UserCreateForm, self).save(commit=False)
        user.email = self.cleaned_data["email"]
        user.first_name = self.cleaned_data["first_name"]
        user.last_name = self.cleaned_data["last_name"]
        if commit:
            user.save()
        return user

urls.py;

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.
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from stationrunner.forms import UserCreateForm
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urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url('^registration/', 
        CreateView.as_view(template_name='auth/register.html',
                       form_class=UserCreateForm,
                       success_url='/stations/create'
        ),
        name='userregistration'
    ),
    .
    .
    .
)

and finally my tests.py;

from django.test import TestCase
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class TestUserSignUp(TestCase):
    .
    .
    .
    def test_submission_form_creates_user_object(self):
    """
    Tests if submission of the form on page for creation of a 
    user creates a user object and its attributes take the 
    expected values
    """
    first_name = "somename"
    last_name = "somename"
    email = "someemail@someservice.com"
    username = "someusername"
    password = "somepassword"
    response = self.client.post(reverse("userregistration"),
                                {"first_name": first_name,
                                 "last_name": last_name,
                                 "email": email,
                                 "username": username,
                                 "password": password},
                                follow=True)
    assert "user" in response.context
    user = response.context["user"]
    assert user.first_name == first_name
    assert user.last_name == last_name
    assert user.email == email
    assert user.username == username
    assert user.password == user.set_password(password)

As said above a user object is indeed getting saved into db and I further assured it using userobject.is_authenticated() from the django shell

But when I run my test I get the following failure

>       assert user.first_name == first_name

stationrunner/tests.py:145: 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _      _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

self = >, args = ('first_name',)

    def inner(self, *args):
        if self._wrapped is empty:
            self._setup()
>       return func(self._wrapped, *args)
E       AttributeError: 'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute 'first_name'

I am a newbie to Python/Django and I badly look forward for someone to explain to me what is happening here

Afzal

Update;

I imported authenticate and login to my forms.py and changed the save() method to look like;

def save(self, commit=True):
    user = super(UserCreateForm, self).save(commit=False)
    user.email = self.cleaned_data["email"]
    user.first_name = self.cleaned_data["first_name"]
    user.last_name = self.cleaned_data["last_name"]
    if commit:
        user.save()
        authenticate(username=user.username, password=user.password)
        log_user_in(user)
    return user

and added the expected log_user_in() method as;

def log_user_in(self, user):
    login(self.request, user)

I have tried to log the user in and hence expects my response.context to contain not a anonymous user object but a user object itself.

But the code doesn't work it seems. I still get the same error. As already said I'm a newbie so please forgive if there is any silliness.

Django Test Client does not create a user object but creates a anonymous user object

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