Not sure what you mean. The User model will act just like any other model.
$ python manage.py shell
>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>>
>>> userobj = User.objects.get(username='jrschneider')
>>>
>>> userobj
<User: jrschneider>
>>>
>>> type(userobj)
<class 'django.contrib.auth.models.User'>
>>>
>>> userobj.username
u'jrschneider'
>>>
>>> userobj.is_staff
True
>>>
>>> userobj.is_superuser
True
>>>
>>> dir(userobj)
['DoesNotExist', 'Meta', 'MultipleObjectsReturned', 'REQUIRED_FIELDS',
'USERNAME_FIELD', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__',
'__eq__', '__format__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__',
u'__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
'__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__',
'__unicode__', '__weakref__', '_base_manager', '_default_manager',
'_deferred', '_do_insert', '_do_update', '_get_FIELD_display',
'_get_next_or_previous_by_FIELD', '_get_next_or_previous_in_order',
'_get_pk_val', '_get_unique_checks', '_meta', '_perform_date_checks',
'_perform_unique_checks', '_save_parents', '_save_table', '_set_pk_val',
'_state', 'check_password', 'clean', 'clean_fields', 'date_error_message',
'date_joined', 'delete', 'email', 'email_user', 'first_name', 'full_clean',
'get_absolute_url', 'get_all_permissions', 'get_full_name',
'get_group_permissions', 'get_next_by_date_joined',
'get_next_by_last_login', 'get_previous_by_date_joined',
'get_previous_by_last_login', 'get_profile', 'get_short_name',
'get_username', 'groups', 'has_module_perms', 'has_perm', 'has_perms',
'has_usable_password', 'id', 'is_active', 'is_anonymous',
'is_authenticated', 'is_staff', 'is_superuser', 'last_login', 'last_name',
'natural_key', 'objects', 'password', 'pk', 'prepare_database_save',
'save', 'save_base', 'serializable_value', 'set_password',
'set_unusable_password', 'unique_error_message', 'user_permissions',
'username', 'validate_unique']
>>>
>>> repr(userobj)
'<User: jrschneider>'
>>> print userobj
jrschneider
>>>
>>> for i in dir(userobj):
... if not i.startswith('_'):
... print i
...
DoesNotExist
Meta
MultipleObjectsReturned
REQUIRED_FIELDS
USERNAME_FIELD
check_password
clean
clean_fields
date_error_message
date_joined
delete
email
email_user
first_name
full_clean
get_absolute_url
get_all_permissions
get_full_name
get_group_permissions
get_next_by_date_joined
get_next_by_last_login
get_previous_by_date_joined
get_previous_by_last_login
get_profile
get_short_name
get_username
groups
has_module_perms
has_perm
has_perms
has_usable_password
id
is_active
is_anonymous
is_authenticated
is_staff
is_superuser
last_login
last_name
natural_key
objects
password
pk
prepare_database_save
save
save_base
serializable_value
set_password
set_unusable_password
unique_error_message
user_permissions
username
validate_unique
>>>
>>> vars(userobj)
{'username': u'jrschneider', 'first_name': u'', 'last_name': u'',
'is_active': True, '_state': <django.db.models.base.ModelState object at
0x3b6c410>, 'email': u'', 'is_superuser': True, 'is_staff': True,
'last_login': datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 14, 15, 57, 27, 58040,
tzinfo=<UTC>), 'password':
u'pbkdf2_sha256$12000$5zwVBOTE9oft$C25SqN0TztFt6qbonqS0NVNu1WIsVUi+yuNxywMbTZA=',
'id': 1, 'date_joined': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 8, 0, 18, 58, 7156,
tzinfo=<UTC>)}
>>>
>>> import pprint
>>> pprint.pprint(vars(userobj))
{'_state': <django.db.models.base.ModelState object at 0x3b6c410>,
'date_joined': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 8, 0, 18, 58, 7156,
tzinfo=<UTC>),
'email': u'',
'first_name': u'',
'id': 1,
'is_active': True,
'is_staff': True,
'is_superuser': True,
'last_login': datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 14, 15, 57, 27, 58040,
tzinfo=<UTC>),
'last_name': u'',
'password':
u'pbkdf2_sha256$12000$5zwVBOTE9oft$C25SqN0TztFt6qbonqS0NVNu1WIsVUi+yuNxywMbTZA=',
'username': u'jrschneider'}
>>>
The output of 'print userobj' is controlled by the __str__() method of the
User model (inherited from AbstractBaseUser), and only returns the
username. I showed a couple of different ways to enumerate the attributes
and methods available on a User object via a for loop using the dir()
function, and the vars() function, the latter of which is likely what you
want, and will produce a consistent output rather than relying on repr() or
print() (assuming the magic enumeration methods are available, which should
be true for all Django models).
For those concerned, the password field is a hash of a throwaway password
on a non-Internet available development system.
HTH,
-James
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Henry Versemann <fencer1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I tried what you suggested and printed from the view what the type command
> returned and it looks like this:
>
> type(userobj)=(<class 'django.contrib.auth.models.User'>)
>
> so that part of it does seem to be working. So why can't I see the other
> values within the object then displayed in normal object notation instead
> of just seeing this:
>
> userobj=(hvadmin)
>
> when I print out a string representation of the User object? I had
> expected to see a lot of different fields like "id",
> "username", "first_name", "last_name", "email", "password", "groups",
> "user_permissions", "is_staff", "is_active", "is_superuser", "last_login",
> and "date_joined"
>
> which are just about all of the columns defined for the User model
> according to the documentation.
> So how do I get to that data then if I can't see it this way?
> Thanks for the help.
>
> On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 1:18:57 PM UTC-6, Tundebabzy wrote:
>
>> userobj = User.objects.get(username=myuser)
>>
>> Will get you a User object or throw an error if it can't find anything.
>> The string representation of the User object is the string contained its
>> username field.
>>
>> Try this to confirm:
>> type(userobj)
>> On 6 Jan 2015 18:48, "Henry Versemann" <fence...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I currently using Python 2.7.7 and Django 1.7 as I build a new
>>> application.
>>> I need to retrieve an entire User object from the authentication User
>>> Model, but when I do the following:
>>>
>>> userobj = User.objects.get(username=myuser)
>>>
>>> all I'm getting returned is just the same username value (contained in
>>> myuser) that I'm trying to use, to get the complete associated User object.
>>> So my question is what am I doing wrong?
>>> Can't I use a regular query on the User model (that I get from this
>>> import: "from django.contrib.auth.models import User" ) the same way that I
>>> would be able to use on one of my application's models?
>>> This is very frustrating and while I'm comfortable with using Django
>>> apparently I still have a lot to learn about it.
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
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