Question

I wrapped the django.contrib.auth.views.logout with another function to add additional behaviour. This is my new logout_page:

views.py

from django.contrib.auth import logout
def logout_page(request, *args, **kwargs):
    from django.utils import timezone
    user = request.user
    profile = user.get_profile()
    profile.last_logout = timezone.now()
    profile.save()
    logout(request, *args, **kwargs)

and

urls.py

(r'^logout/$', 'main.views.logout_page', {'next_page': '/'})

But I’m getting the following error:

logout() got an unexpected keyword argument 'next_page'

I’m not sure why is ‘next_page’ an unexpected argument when logout contains **kwargs and as far as I know, logout from django.contrib.auth should contain such argument. From the source:

https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/views.py

def logout(request, next_page=None,
           template_name='registration/logged_out.html',
           redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME,
           current_app=None, extra_context=None):
...

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

You’re calling the wrong logout.

from django.contrib.auth import logout

should be

from django.contrib.auth.views import logout