Adding a user to a group in django
coredumperror is right but I have found one thing I need to share that one
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
# get_or_create return error due to
new_group = Group.objects.get_or_create(name = 'groupName')
print(type(new_group)) # return tuple
new_group = Group.objects.get_or_create(name = 'groupName')
user.groups.add(new_group) # new_group as tuple and it return error
# get() didn't return error due to
new_group = Group.objects.get(name = 'groupName')
print(type(new_group)) # return <class 'django.contrib.auth.models.Group'>
user = User.objects.get(username = 'username')
user.groups.add(new_group) # new_group as object and user is added
Find the group using Group model with the name of the group, then add the user to the user_set
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
my_group = Group.objects.get(name='my_group_name')
my_group.user_set.add(your_user)
Here's how to do this in modern versions of Django (tested in Django 1.7):
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
group = Group.objects.get(name='groupname')
user.groups.add(group)