Best practice to update Django contrib

Question

I'd like to make some changes to def login and def logout in django.contrib.auth __init.py__. Specifically I want to add a mixpanel event to user login and logout.

I know I can do this by editing the file directly, although I assume this is not recommended due to version control / etc.

What's the best / easiest way to override these functions cleanly?

Answer 1

There's no reason to change the code at all. Both login and logout send signals; you can write code that listens to those signals and create your mixpanel events.