Thanks James. You were right and its all there.
Thanks again.
Henry
On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 2:54:42 PM UTC-6, James Schneider wrote:
> 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 <fence...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> 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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