title: Error with Django User : "AttributeError: 'User' object has no attribute 'get' "
body: <p>I've just started Django and Python 50 hours ago ;-) so this might be an easy one but I am stuck.</p>
  
  <p>I am using similar 'create' view with similar Form implementation in my project with no problem. In this case, I get the above mentionned error.</p>
  
  <p>I am using Pinax...</p>
  
  <pre><code>2   from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404
  3   from django.template import RequestContext
  4   from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
  5   from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
  6   from django.contrib.auth.models import User
  7   from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
  8   from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
  9   
  10  from django.conf import settings
  11  
  12  if "notification" in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
  13      from notification import models as notification
  14  else:
  15      notification = None
  16  
  17  from location.models import Location
  18  from location.forms import LocationForm, LocationUpdateForm
  19  
  20  
  21  @login_required
  22  def create(request, form_class=LocationForm, template_name="location/create.html"):
  23      location_form = form_class(request.user, request.POST or None)
  24  
  25  
  26      
  27      if location_form.is_valid():
  28          location = location_form.save(commit=False)
  29          location.creator = request.user
  30          location.save()
  31          return HttpResponseRedirect(location.get_absolute_url())
  32      
  33      return render_to_response(template_name, {
  34          "location_form": location_form,
  35      }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 636, in __call__
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 134, in get_response
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 154, in handle_uncaught_exception
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 92, in get_response
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/python/django/trunk/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 78, in __call__
      return self.view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/jezam_kms/apps/location/views.py", line 27, in create
      if location_form.is_valid():
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/forms/forms.py", line 120, in is_valid
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/forms/forms.py", line 111, in _get_errors
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/forms/forms.py", line 234, in full_clean
  
    File "/Users/philgo20/code/LeadMiner/django/forms/widgets.py", line 170, in value_from_datadict
  
  AttributeError: 'User' object has no attribute 'get'
  </code></pre>