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Reputation: 3

Creating a user object in Django: why are first_name and last_name both stored as (u'Name',)?

I've created a user registration form, and for some reason the first_name and last_name fields are stored within (u'',). How do I prevent this?

views.py (unrelated stuff omitted):

def register(request):           

   if request.method == 'POST':
         form = RegistrationForm(request.POST)
         if form.is_valid():
             user = User.objects.create_user(
                     username=form.cleaned_data['username'],
                     email=form.cleaned_data['email'],
                     password=form.cleaned_data['password']
                     )
             user.first_name=form.cleaned_data['first_name'],
             user.last_name=form.cleaned_data['last_name'],
             user.save()
             userprofile, created = UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user = user)
             return HttpResponse("you have been successfully registered!")

models.py:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
     user = models.OneToOneField(User)

For instance, I register a user with the name Joe Bruin. The name is stored as (u'Joe',) (u'Bruin',). I figure something has gone wrong with form.cleaned_data, but I'm not sure how.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1142

Answers (2)

Dan Aronne
Dan Aronne

Reputation: 616

first_name and last_name are not stored within u''. The u'' just means that the returned string is in unicode format. The default encoding in django is unicode. Take a look at what is actually stored in your database.

From Django Docs General String Handling: 

# Python 2 legacy:
my_string = "This is a bytestring"
my_unicode = u"This is an Unicode string"

# Python 3 or Python 2 with unicode literals 
from __future__ import unicode_literals

my_string = b"This is a bytestring"
my_unicode = "This is an Unicode string"

Notice how in Python 3 the default is unicode.

Upvotes: 1

icktoofay
icktoofay

Reputation: 129011

You have trailing commas:

user.first_name=form.cleaned_data['first_name'],
user.last_name=form.cleaned_data['last_name'],

That makes them into tuples. You don't want that. Remove the trailing commas.

Upvotes: 3

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