Update User Profiles - Django Wednesdays Twitter #11

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[@ArSiddharth]

Thank you 😊

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@@ArSiddharth welcome

[@labialkosta261]

Thanks for uploading; you deserve a lot of support.

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[@Tomytoka]

so aparently in django version higher than 4.1.4 you get a "A user with that username already exists" message and it needs to change the username if anyone knows why please tell me

[@emreylmaz8758]

I also had the same issue for the past two days. I did not figure it out yet. Are there anyone who can help about the issue and solution

[@lorenminiuk2435]

Hi John, very effective coding 👌, thanxs a lot

[@Codemycom]

Thanks!

[@CodeRytr]

11: 17 A user with that username already exists. In the form of update user page method is post action is django url way to update user and enctype is multipart form data

[@Codemycom]

I keep answering you when you keep asking this same question. What did you do differently from the video? Check your code to discover what you did differently.

[@0549257524]

hey, im actually having the same issue. and after comparing my SignUpForm and update_user function i found no code differences, please update if you figure this out :)

[@CodeRytr]

@@0549257524 Django version ?

[@0549257524]

@@CodeRytr 4.2

[@CodeRytr]

@@0549257524 Change it Django==4.1.4 It works for me.. 👍

[@MagicByIzzy]

Hi John, thanks so much for this playlist, it's really helpful! However I have a bug. I have the same code as you, but when I try to update a profile, it says "An account with this username already exists"

[@Codemycom]

Then you don't have the same code as me. Set it aside for a few days and then compare it to the video again and the error will jump right out at you.

[@MagicByIzzy]

@@Codemycom okay, will try that

[@modelrailwaymaster]

did you find the error because im getting the same error @@MagicByIzzy

[@user-gq1ij]

Same with me, did you find how ?

[@lorenminiuk2435]

Hi When I try to update the profile I get this weird message: "A user with that username already exists." Of course the profile exists because this is an update. It seems that the core system is taken hand on my code. I tried to have a look on your Git but unfortunately the update profile function is not in. Would you have an idea ? How is it possible that UserCreationForm is used for both Creation and Update ?

[@Codemycom]

yeah, it's a problem with the new version of django. Break the pages into two...one with User Auth stuff, and one with profile stuff.

[@lorenminiuk2435]

👌@@Codemycom

[@manualdagringa6575]

yeah i'm getting the same error as everyone, i suspect django expects us to change the username but my user won't necessarily want to change his/her username so we need to find a way to get around this, using django's old versions might help but it's not a long term solution

[@Codemycom]

Switch to a UserChangeForm instead of UserCreationForm

[@mohammadamini-hi3ps]

I know , in form change usercertain form to 'BaseuserCreatinForm'

[@ishhh8399]

after doing the update page instance when im trying to update the name it says the user with this username exists i dont understand what i did wrong

[@Codemycom]

Try putting it away for a few days and then coming back with fresh eyes and comparing your code to the video...the error will likely pop right out to you then.

[@ishhh8399]

@@Codemycom i definitely will come back to it on a later date, thanks for the content and active replying to comments it really upgrades the experience of watching your courses. P.S you made me not hate coding

[@ishhh8399]

@Codemycom i tried it again and it still says "the user with this username already exists" when i try to update any information on the form. ive checked it twice please help

[@Codemycom]

@@ishhh8399 I can't really guess what you did wrong...but there's something in your code different from the videos.

[@CodeRytr]

11:17 Showing error A user with that username already exists.

[@Codemycom]

What did you do differently from the video? Check your code to discover what you did differently.

[@dmitryvolkov5167]

I have the same error

[@user-gq1ij]

Any update on why this is happening

[@briangreenberg153]

John, it's your buddy, Brian, here in lovely Las Vegas. I'm running Django 4.2.5 as it's already October 2023. Seems that I am getting the same error several folks have already pointed out with exactly same code as in your video: "An account with this username already exists." Do you know of a workaround we could use? I suspect your code works fine with an earlier Django version. Thanks

[@Codemycom]

You can always pip uninstall django and install the version I use: pip install Django==4.1.4

[@briangreenberg153]

@@Codemycom I thought I would try something else first. So, I created a new form for updating user info. It is the same as the SignUpForm, but without the password fields. Seems to work ok with Django 4.2.5. Additionally, in the view, I commented out the login(request.current_user) after saving the form because it did not log me out! Probably because no password entry was involved. So far, so good. Not sure if this will come back to bite me later on!

[@larsbenjaminagerbo3501]

I've checked my code several times now and it's exactly as in the video, but when I try to update, I too get the error "A user with that username already exists"

[@larsbenjaminagerbo3501]

Just tried copying my code to an instance running django 4.1.4 and I do not get the error, so it seems to be django-related

[@ryanb55]

@@larsbenjaminagerbo3501 Same here!

[@Codemycom]

Not necessarily, you're just using a new instance that doesn't already have a username that exists...

[@larsbenjaminagerbo3501]

@@Codemycom In both instances I made sure that my admin-user was the only user in the database and then I created a user and then changed the name and in 4.1.4 I got no error but in 4.2.3 I got the 'A user with that username already exists' error :)

[@user-gq1ij]

Same error, did you find how

[@musavirrehman3841]

Thanks for uploading the django series continuously I have a question how we will send generated pdf to hard-coded email in django?

[@Codemycom]

I don't have any videos on that. You generally want to use a third party like mailgun etc to send mail in django.

[@shaikhrahil6143]

Thanks alot

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Welcome!

[@ArSiddharth]

💕 💕💕

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