conftest.py

import pytest
from django.conf import settings

from python_podcast.users.tests.factories import UserFactory


@pytest.fixture
def user() -> settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL:
    password = "password"
    user = UserFactory(password=password)
    user._password = password
    return user

factories.py

from typing import Any, Sequence

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from factory import DjangoModelFactory, Faker, post_generation

class UserFactory(DjangoModelFactory):

    username = Faker("user_name")
    email = Faker("email")
    name = Faker("name")
    
    @post_generation
    def password(self, create: bool, extracted: Sequence[Any], **kwargs):
        print("args: ", self, create, extracted, kwargs)
        password = extracted if extracted is not None else self.get_fake_password()
        if extracted is not None:
            password = extracted
        else:
            password = Faker(
                "password",
                length=42,
                special_chars=True,
                digits=True,
                upper_case=True,
                lower_case=True,
            ).generate(
                extra_kwargs={}
            )
        self.set_password(password)

    class Meta:
        model = get_user_model()
        django_get_or_create = ["username"]

test_views.py

import pytest


@pytest.mark.django_db
def test_list_archive_owner_with_authorization(self, client, user):
    # login
    r = client.login(username=user.username, password=user._password)
    test_url = reverse("appname:list")
    r = client.get(test_url)
    assert r.status_code == 200