Using manager methods

class RegistrationManager(models.Manager):
    """
    Custom manager for the RegistrationProfile model.
    
    The methods defined here provide shortcuts for account creation
    and activation (including generation and emailing of activation
    keys), and for cleaning out expired inactive accounts.
    
    """
    def activate_user(self, activation_key):
        """
        Given the activation key, makes a User's account active if the
        activation key is valid and has not expired.
        
        Returns the User if successful, or False if the account was
        not found or the key had expired.
        
        """
        # Make sure the key we're trying conforms to the pattern of a
        # SHA1 hash; if it doesn't, no point even trying to look it up
        # in the DB.
        if re.match('[a-f0-9]{40}', activation_key):
            try:
                user_profile = self.get(activation_key=activation_key)
            except self.model.DoesNotExist:
                return False
            if not user_profile.activation_key_expired():
                # Account exists and has a non-expired key. Activate it.
                user = user_profile.user
                user.is_active = True
                user.save()
                return user
        return False
    
    def create_inactive_user(self, username, password, email, send_email=True):
        """
        Creates a new User and a new RegistrationProfile for that
        User, generates an activation key, and mails it.
        
        Pass ``send_email=False`` to disable sending the email.
        
        """
        # Create the user.
        new_user = User.objects.create_user(username, email, password)
        new_user.is_active = False
        new_user.save()
        
        # Generate a salted SHA1 hash to use as a key.
        salt = sha.new(str(random.random())).hexdigest()[:5]
        activation_key = sha.new(salt+new_user.username).hexdigest()
        
        # And finally create the profile.
        new_profile = self.create(user=new_user,
                                  activation_key=activation_key)
        
        if send_email:
            from django.core.mail import send_mail
            current_domain = Site.objects.get_current().domain
            subject = "Activate your new account at %s" % current_domain
            message_template = loader.get_template('registration/activation_email.txt')
            message_context = Context({ 'site_url': 'http://%s/' % current_domain,
                                        'activation_key': activation_key,
                                        'expiration_days': settings.ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS })
            message = message_template.render(message_context)
            send_mail(subject, message, settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, [new_user.email])
        return new_user
    
    def delete_expired_users(self):
        """
        Removes unused profiles and their associated accounts.

        This is provided largely as a convenience for maintenance
        purposes; if a RegistrationProfile's key expires without the
        account being activated, then both the RegistrationProfile and
        the associated User become clutter in the database, and (more
        importantly) it won't be possible for anyone to ever come back
        and claim the username. For best results, set this up to run
        regularly as a cron job.
        
        If you have a User whose account you want to keep in the
        database even though it's inactive (say, to prevent a
        troublemaker from accessing or re-creating his account), just
        delete that User's RegistrationProfile and this method will
        leave it alone.
        
        """
        for profile in self.all():
            if profile.activation_key_expired():
                user = profile.user
                if not user.is_active:
                    user.delete() # Removing the User will remove the RegistrationProfile, too.