Retrieve and Update the User

Retrieve the user

Say we want to retrieve a specific user object. To do that using the username, we will do the following:

user = User.objects.get(username='Ulrich')

This will give us our user and store it in the user model. In the same way, we can also get the user back using the email field.

Update the user

Now we want to update the user, which we just retrieved. Say we want to update the email. Here is how we will do that:

user.email="helsinki@gmail.com"
user.save()

This will simply update the user. Note how we are saving it, using the save() function itself.