In Django, how do I know the currently logged-in user?

Question

In Django, how do I know the currently logged-in user?

Answer 1

Where do you need to know the user?

In views the user is provided in the request as request.user.

For user-handling in templates see here

If you want to save the creator or editor of a model's instance you can do something like:

model.py

class Article(models.Model):     created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='created_by')     created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)     edited_by  = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='edited_by')     edited_on  = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)     published  = models.BooleanField(default=None) 

admin.py

class ArticleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):     fields= ('title','slug','text','category','published')     inlines = [ImagesInline]     def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):          instance = form.save(commit=False)         if not hasattr(instance,'created_by'):             instance.created_by = request.user         instance.edited_by = request.user         instance.save()         form.save_m2m()         return instance      def save_formset(self, request, form, formset, change):           def set_user(instance):             if not instance.created_by:                 instance.created_by = request.user             instance.edited_by = request.user             instance.save()          if formset.model == Article:             instances = formset.save(commit=False)             map(set_user, instances)             formset.save_m2m()             return instances         else:             return formset.save() 

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