Django get_profile() method not working on extended User model

Question

I have a model in an app named user_profile like so:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserProfile         


        

Answer 1

Er, you're trying to get the user profile of a UserProfile. I expect you mean to get a User, then call get_profile() on that.

Answer 2

To anyone else that gets this error by following the old documentation, get_profile() has been depreciated in django 1.7.

Instead you can just access the userprofile from the user as below..

u_p = user.userprofile

where userprofile is the name of your UserProfile class

_{You can also change to use the newer documentation by clicking on the desired version in the bottom right corner}

Answer 3

I am using Django 1.8 and .userprofile throws an error.

To get around this since I had profiles setup in Django 1.3, after upgrading to 1.8 I just changed .get_profile() to profile and it works.