Writing a __init__ function to be used in django model

Question

I\'m trying to write an __init__ function for one of my models so that I can create an object by doing:

p = User(\'name\',\'email\')
         


        

Answer 1

The correct answer is to avoid overriding __init__ and write a classmethod as described in the Django docs.

But this could be done like you're trying, you just need to add in *args, **kwargs to be accepted by your __init__, and pass them on to the super method call.

def __init__(self, name, email, house_id, password, *args, **kwargs):
        super(models.Model, self).__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.name = name
        self.email = email