James said it all. I'll just add that you really need to brush up on your python. Django is pure python. I've all been there before. On 6 Jan 2015 21:10, "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. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Django users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to django-users...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/django-users/b9f1b941-d01b-402a-94e9-33b2dbd13dbe% >>> 40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/b9f1b941-d01b-402a-94e9-33b2dbd13dbe%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/18705df9-e1da-4c85-9b21-9e13949b6d20%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/18705df9-e1da-4c85-9b21-9e13949b6d20%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2BWjgXOLku6HtvQzueQV6UiMo0za4nb6gnjWQw_Vha3GTXaM0w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
