Extending the User model with custom fields in Django

Question

What\'s the best way to extend the User model (bundled with Django\'s authentication app) with custom fields? I would also possibly like to use the email as the username (fo

Answer 1

The below one is another approach to extend an User. I feel it is more clear,easy,readable then above two approaches.

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

Using above approach:

1. you don't need to use user.get_profile().newattribute to access the additional information related to the user
2. you can just directly access additional new attributes via user.newattribute