Hi,

What is the current canonical way to handle multiple user-profiles in 
Django?

For example - say you have "Teachers", "Students", "Parents" - you may have 
slightly different fields for each one and/or different behaviour. Students 
will have things like grades, Parents may have 1-to-many Students etc.

I understand you can use a OneToOne field to associated different user 
profiles with each type of user:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/auth/customizing/#extending-the-existing-user-model

The docs mention using a django.db.models.signals.post_save 
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/signals/#django.db.models.signals.post_save>
 
signal on User, but I'm guessing that won't work here if you have multiple 
types of users.

Or are you better off subclassing django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractUser? 
(I get the impression using profile models is less invasive).

Regards,
Victor

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