Get current user log in signal in Django

Question

I am just using the admin site in Django. I have 2 Django signals (pre_save and post_save). I would like to have the username of the current user. How would I do that? It does n

Answer 1

In both signals, signal send three arguments,

• Sender
• Instance
• Using

What you need is the Instant being modified...

def signal_catcher(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    uname = instance.username

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/signals/#pre-save