[Answer]-Django-autocomplete-light with User – choices should be a queryset

Hmm, got it… Docs don’t mention but it needs choices to be explicitly defined on the autocomplete class.

class UserAutocomplete(autocomplete_light.AutocompleteModelBase):
    search_fields = ['email']
    choices = User.objects.all()
    model = User
autocomplete_light.register(UserAutocomplete)