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Retrieve and Update the User

Understand how to retrieve a user object by username or email in Django and update user information like email addresses. Explore practical methods to save changes to the database and verify updates using Django's admin interface.

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 ...