python - User object returns None in ManytoMany -

i have many many relationship between user object , movement object. everytime run test see of user object added, auth.user.none

models:

class movement(models.model):     zipcode = models.foreignkey('zipcode')     title = models.charfield(max_length=100)     description = models.charfield(max_length=400, null=false,          blank=true)     users = models.manytomanyfield(user)     slug = models.slugfield(unique=true)       def save(self, *args, **kwargs):         self.slug = slugify(self.title)         super(movement, self).save(*args, **kwargs)      def __str__(self):         return self.title 

form:

class movementform(forms.modelform):        title= forms.charfield(max_length=100, help_text="movement title")     description = forms.charfield(help_text="movement description",         widget=forms.textarea(attrs={'paceholder':'please enter description'}))     slug = forms.charfield(widget=forms.hiddeninput(), required=false)      class meta:         model = movement         exclude = ['zipcode', 'users'] 

view:

@login_required def new_movement(request):     template = 'new_movement.html'       if request.method == 'post':         zipcode_form = zipcodeform(data=request.post)         movement_form = movementform(data=request.post)          if zipcode_form.is_valid() , movement_form.is_valid():             zipcode, create = zipcode.objects.get_or_create(**zipcode_form.cleaned_data)             movement = movement_form.save(commit=false)             movement.zipcode = zipcode             movement.save()             movement.users.add(request.user)             movement.save()             return redirect('/%s/results' %zipcode.zipcode)     else:          zipcode_form = zipcodeform()         movement_form = movementform()      return render(request, template,          {'movement_form':movement_form, 'zipcode_form':zipcode_form})      return render(request, template, {} ) 

everything runs fine, when run test code hoping name of user, auth.user.none.

test.py:

class newmovementviewtest(testcase):      def setup(self):         self.user = user.objects.create_user(             username='megan',             email='megan@email.com',             password='password',         )         self.client.login(username='megan', password='password')      def test_new_movement_saves_user(self):          response = self.client.post('/new_movement/',             data={'title':'a movement',             'zipcode':20016,             'description':'some movement'})         movements = movement.objects.all()         self.assertequal(movements.count(), 1)         movement= movements[0]         self.assertequal(movement.title, 'a movement')         self.assertequal(movement.zipcode.zipcode, 20016)         self.assertequal(movement.description, 'some movement')         users = movement.objects.filter(users__username__startswith="megan")         print(users[0].users) 

test output:

creating test database alias 'default'... auth.user.none . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ran 1 test in 0.191s  ok 

        users = movement.objects.filter(users__username__startswith="megan") 

just note naming - going return 'movement' queryset - not user information. will return movement objects based on filter (which in case filtering across relationship); please aware movement objects, not user objects.

you can use indexes first movement object - users[0].users going return object manager (specifically 'manyrelatedmanager'). if want inspect users associated object, can treat other object managers , like:

user = users[0].users.first() 

or

all_users = users[0].users.all() 

feel free refer django guide - has nice examples on many-to-many relationships. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/db/examples/many_to_many/