# pylint E5142 (imported-auth-user) **URL:** \ **Category:** Forms & APIs\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748 "2020-10-12T09:14:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mleasi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mleasi/32/2179_2.png) [@mleasi](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mleasi)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748/1 "2020-10-12T09:14:22Z")
Hi, I’m newer to django and I would create good code using pylint I can’t correct error: E5142: User model imported from django.contrib.auth.models (imported-auth-user) with import line: from django.contrib.auth.models import User Thank you Marco ---
**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748/2 "2020-10-12T13:41:23Z")
Are you using some django-specific plugin for pylint? That doesn’t appear to be a standard pylint error code. (At least, I’m not finding it when I do pylint --list-msgs.) It also doesn’t strike me as being an “Error” outside the context of a specific application, where the application has a pylint extension to catch this specific situation. ---
**Author:** ![mleasi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mleasi/32/2179_2.png) [@mleasi](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mleasi)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748/3 "2020-10-12T14:18:30Z")
thank you very much for your interest, you have been very helpful Yes, I’m using django plugin: pylint --load-plugins pylint\_django but I did not know --list-msgs So i tried and I discovered: :imported-auth-user (E5142): _User model imported from django.contrib.auth.models_ Don’t import django.contrib.auth.models.User model. Use django.contrib.auth.get\_user\_model() instead! Now i replaced: from django.contrib.auth.models import User (User, … with from django.db import models (settings.AUTH\_USER\_MODEL, and the error message is resolved. Thank you very much ---
**Author:** ![elvissierra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/elvissierra/32/10601_2.png) [@elvissierra](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/elvissierra)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748/4 "2022-10-28T17:26:08Z")
Hello, im currently having this issue in my serializer.py file, im try to figure out this way but cannot format it. Where can i look at to alleviate this issue? ---
**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748/5 "2022-10-28T19:16:49Z")
I don’t understand what you’re asking here. It might be helpful if you post the code you’re trying and the details of the errors you’re getting as a result of that. (Note, when you post code here, enclose it between lines of three backtick - ` characters. This means you’ll have a line of ```, theny your code, then another line of ```. This will force the forum software to keep your code properly formatted.) ---
**Author:** ![elvissierra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/elvissierra/32/10601_2.png) [@elvissierra](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/elvissierra)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pylint-e5142-imported-auth-user/4748/6 "2022-10-31T21:38:45Z")
thank you for this, and i ended up figureing out the solution to my problem.