Django - Multiple User Profiles

Question

Initially, I started my UserProfile like this:

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

class UserProfile(models.Model):
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Answer 1

I have done it this way.

PROFILE_TYPES = (
    (u'INDV', 'Individual'),
    (u'CORP', 'Corporate'),
)

# used just to define the relation between User and Profile
class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    profile = models.ForeignKey('Profile')
    type = models.CharField(choices=PROFILE_TYPES, max_length=16)

# common fields reside here
class Profile(models.Model):
    verified = models.BooleanField(default=False)

I ended up using an intermediate table to reflect the relation between two abstract models, User which is already defined in Django, and my Profile model. In case of having attributes that are not common, I will create a new model and relate it to Profile.