from __future__ import unicode_literals from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.db.models import Q def format_username(firstname, lastname): first = firstname.lower().strip().replace(" ", "")[:6].encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('utf-8') last = lastname.lower().strip().replace(" ", "")[:6].encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('utf-8') return "{0}{1}".format(first, last) def users_with_perm(perm_name): return User.objects.filter( Q(is_superuser=True) | Q(user_permissions__codename=perm_name) | Q(groups__permissions__codename=perm_name)).distinct() def users_format_js(users): users_js = [] for user in users: users_js.append('"' + user.first_name + ' ' + user.last_name[:1] + '"') users_js = "[{}]".format(u",".join(users_js)) return users_js