[Django]-Django 1.4 Creating an Edit User Profile Account Settings View

To get the profile attached to a user object, you just need to call get_profile() on the user object:

user.get_profile()

For example,

request.user.get_profile()

The docs on it are in Django Docs. Its worth noting that

The method get_profile() does not create a profile if one does not exist.

So you have to have a trigger to create profiles on creating users …