Question

I’m not sure why this isn’t working, since it seems to be exactly what the django documentation tells me to do.

I want to be able to subclass the built-in User model so that I can add extra fields to it.

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Person(User):
    my_extra_field = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    #...

This seems rather simple, and the way I understand it, all the methods of User should be available to Person. However, calling

user = Person.objects.create_user('john', '[e-mail]', 'johnpassword')

in the django shell results in an error.

Is this just a quirk of the shell (I’m using iPython), or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2008/08/21/extending-the-django-user-model-with-inheritance/

You need to include the UserManager(). Import the User, UserManager and set the UserManager() to the variable objects in your Person class.