django: create user profile for existing users automatically

Question

I added a new UserProfile Model to my project today.

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    ...

    def __unicode__(self         


        

Answer 1

You can loop through the existing users, and call get_or_create():

for user in User.objects.all():
    UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=user)

You could put this in a data migration if you wish, or run the code in the shell.