create users for mdid3 from a json source - management command, only a start

add_users_via_json.py

import requests
import simplejson as json
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from optparse import make_option
from django.core.validators import email_re
from django.db import IntegrityError
from django.conf import settings
import logging


class Command(BaseCommand):
    option_list = BaseCommand.option_list + (
        make_option('--file', '-f', action='store_true', dest='file', help='Load json from a file instead'),
    )

    help = 'Add user accounts based on json from a user database\n' \
           'Available commands: serverurl \n' \
           'ex: python manage.py add_users_json [crn] \n ' \
           'where [crn] is a course reference number like 12345'
    args = 'crn'

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        return process_users(args)


def process_users(self, crn, options=None):

    file_json = options.get('file', None)

    if file_json:
        try:
            jfile = open(crn, 'r')

        except Exception, error_message:
            logging.debug('add_users_json load from file error: %s' % error_message)

    else:
        try:
            parms = {'crn', crn}
            userlist = requests.get(settings.JSON_URL, params=parms)
            logging.debug('add_users_json: adding users from %s' % userlist.url)
        except Exception, error_message:
            logging.debug('add_users_json error: %s' % error_message)


def create_accounts(username, email, first_name, last_name):
    try:
        user = User.objects.create_user(username, email)
        user.is_staff = False
        user.first_name = first_name
        user.last_name = last_name
        user.set_unusable_password()
        user.save()

    except IntegrityError:
      print username