How to make email field unique in model User from contrib.auth in Django

Question

I need to patch the standard User model of contrib.auth by ensuring the email field entry is unique:

User._meta.fields[4].unique = True
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Answer 1

In settings module:

# Fix: username length is too small,email must be unique
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, models
User._meta.local_fields[1].__dict__['max_length'] = 75
User._meta.local_fields[4].__dict__['_unique'] = True