I'm running into a problem where I've created a Group with certain permissions, and successfully added a user to that group, but when I check user.has_perm with that permission, I'm getting False.
I've even tried things like saving the user and re-fetching them from the database to avoid caching issues, but it makes no difference.
The terminal output below should give an idea of what's happening
# Get a group from the database and check its permissions
> special_group = Group.objects.get(name="special_group")
> a_perm = special_group.permissions.all()[0]
> a_perm.codename
'some.permission'
# Get a user from that group and check if they have those permissions
> a_user = special_group.user_set.all()[0]
> a_user.has_perm(a_perm.codename)
False
> a_perm.codename in a_user.get_group_permissions()
False
# Curiously, get_group_permission sort of returns what we need
> a_user.get_group_permissions()
{'ContentType object.some.permission'}
# If we essentially coax the group_permissions into a list and pull an item out of there, has_perm returns true, but this string is different to a_perm.codename
> a_user.has_perm(list(a_user.get_group_permissions())[0])
True
Does anyone know why has_perm isn't behaving as I'm expecting? We are using Django 1.10.3.
