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Document `keyword` variable of TokenAuthentication
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Expand Up @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ For clients to authenticate, the token key should be included in the `Authorizat

Authorization: Token 9944b09199c62bcf9418ad846dd0e4bbdfc6ee4b

**Note:** If you want to use a different keyword in the header, such as `Bearer`, simply subclass `TokenAuthentication` and set the `keyword` class variable.

If successfully authenticated, `TokenAuthentication` provides the following credentials.

* `request.user` will be a Django `User` instance.
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