Adding a user to a group in django

Question

How would I add a user to a group in django by the group\'s name?

I can do this:

user.groups.add(1) # add by id

How would I do some

Answer 1

Here's how to do this in modern versions of Django (tested in Django 1.7):

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
group = Group.objects.get(name='groupname')
user.groups.add(group)