how do i get the string inside the charfield in django?

Question

I'm trying to create a user in my model by calling the create_user function but I want it to have properties of what the user enters into my model. How do I do this?

This is what I have:

class Person(models.Model):       
    #basic information
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
    phone_number = PhoneNumberField(unique=True)

    # FIX THIS!
    user = User.objects.create_user(name, email, phone_number)

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 07 '13 at 19:52

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Looking at the definition. The signature of create_user is:

def create_user(self, username, email=None, password=None, **extra_fields)

username is a required field

This has to be done in your view -

user = User.objects.create_user(first_name=name, last_name='', email=email, username=username)

answered May 07 '13 at 19:52

karthikr

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This doesn't work.. I slightly modified to: user_account = User.objects.create_user(first_name=name, last_name='', email=email, username=email) and I get an attribute error about stripping. – Matt M May 07 '13 at 19:56
AttributeError: 'CharField' object has no attribute 'strip' – Matt M May 07 '13 at 19:59
What is the value of `name` ? - Your issue is resolved. This is just a sideeffect you need to resolve. – karthikr May 07 '13 at 20:01
name = models.CharField(max_length=50) just like in my post – Matt M May 07 '13 at 20:02
Oh.. are you calling `create_user` in the view ? – karthikr May 07 '13 at 20:03
No. I'm calling it in my model. I'm not planning on using views. I just have a person model and I want to create a user with every person. – Matt M May 07 '13 at 20:04
not sure if that is the right approach. I would not know how to achieve that – karthikr May 07 '13 at 20:06
Would you be willing to help me with my design choices then? Do you have skype or email that you are willing to share? – Matt M May 07 '13 at 20:07
sure karthik.ravindra@gmail.com – karthikr May 07 '13 at 20:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '13 at 19:49

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Assuming person is a Person instance:

name = person.name
email = person.email

answered May 07 '13 at 19:49

mipadi

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How do I initialize that instance? I get a Person is not defined Name error. – Matt M May 07 '13 at 19:50
@MattM: Generally speaking, `person = Person.objects.create(name='name', email='email', phone_number=phone)`, but it's hard to say for your specific case without more information. – mipadi May 07 '13 at 19:51
What information do you need to know? I'm using the default User model. My admin just registers a model and the admin associated with it. – Matt M May 07 '13 at 19:53
@MattM: Can you provide the code sample where you're trying to do this? – mipadi May 07 '13 at 19:54
I'm trying to do it in the model class, shown in the original post. – Matt M May 07 '13 at 19:58
Basically, my goal is to create a user with every person that is created, such that they can log into the admin site and eventually add limiting permissions. – Matt M May 07 '13 at 19:58

how do i get the string inside the charfield in django?

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