How to authorize user PY.TEST?

Question

Django

Tell me this moment:
I have a step in the script: Given я авторизованный пользователь
To solve the step, it is enough to go to the authorization page with a splinter, fill in the fields with data and submit the form. But such tactics take a lot of time during the passage of tests. I want to make authorization directly as a fixture. And this is where it hit a dead end. Tell me how to do it? For tests I use py.test, django 1.8.

Answer 1

from django.contrib import auth
auth.authenticate(username=username, password=password)