Django: “Too many values to unpack” when calling user.objects.get()

Question

In Django 1.6, I\'ve defined a custom user model, but for some reason now when I create a superuser and try to get it or access the Django admin as that superuser, I get this

Answer 1

Turns out that the problem here was actually very unrelated to the errors thrown.

I realized I was actually calling

UserObject.objects.get('user@email.com')

instead of

UserObject.objects.get(email='user@email.com')

which is why the errors were being thrown. If you look into the Django source code, you'll find that when building a filter for a QuerySet, Django unpacks the field name and data for use in the filter, but since I had provided no field name to objects.get(...), there was an error thrown when unpacking.

Used the Werkzeug live browser debugger for this; I highly recommend it.

Answer 2

You have to implement has_module_perms method as stated in the Django custom user documentation:

If you want your custom User model to also work with Admin, your User model must define some additional attributes and methods.