Django snippets

    from django.db import transaction
    from django.db.models import get_models, Model
    from django.contrib.contenttypes.generic import GenericForeignKey
    
    @transaction.commit_on_success
    def merge_model_objects(primary_object, alias_objects=[], keep_old=False):
        """
        Use this function to merge model objects (i.e. Users, Organizations, Polls,
        etc.) and migrate all of the related fields from the alias objects to the
        primary object.
        
        Usage:
        from django.contrib.auth.models import User
        primary_user = User.objects.get(email='good_email@example.com')
        duplicate_user = User.objects.get(email='good_email+duplicate@example.com')
        merge_model_objects(primary_user, duplicate_user)
        """
        if not isinstance(alias_objects, list):
            alias_objects = [alias_objects]
        
        # check that all aliases are the same class as primary one and that
        # they are subclass of model
        primary_class = primary_object.__class__
        
        if not issubclass(primary_class, Model):
            raise TypeError('Only django.db.models.Model subclasses can be merged')
        
        for alias_object in alias_objects:
            if not isinstance(alias_object, primary_class):
                raise TypeError('Only models of same class can be merged')
        
        # Get a list of all GenericForeignKeys in all models
        # TODO: this is a bit of a hack, since the generics framework should provide a similar
        # method to the ForeignKey field for accessing the generic related fields.
        generic_fields = []
        for model in get_models():
            for field_name, field in filter(lambda x: isinstance(x[1], GenericForeignKey), model.__dict__.iteritems()):
                generic_fields.append(field)
                
        blank_local_fields = set([field.attname for field in primary_object._meta.local_fields if getattr(primary_object, field.attname) in [None, '']])
        
        # Loop through all alias objects and migrate their data to the primary object.
        for alias_object in alias_objects:
            # Migrate all foreign key references from alias object to primary object.
            for related_object in alias_object._meta.get_all_related_objects():
                # The variable name on the alias_object model.
                alias_varname = related_object.get_accessor_name()
                # The variable name on the related model.
                obj_varname = related_object.field.name
                related_objects = getattr(alias_object, alias_varname)
                for obj in related_objects.all():
                    setattr(obj, obj_varname, primary_object)
                    obj.save()
    
            # Migrate all many to many references from alias object to primary object.
            for related_many_object in alias_object._meta.get_all_related_many_to_many_objects():
                alias_varname = related_many_object.get_accessor_name()
                obj_varname = related_many_object.field.name
                
                if alias_varname is not None:
                    # standard case
                    related_many_objects = getattr(alias_object, alias_varname).all()
                else:
                    # special case, symmetrical relation, no reverse accessor
                    related_many_objects = getattr(alias_object, obj_varname).all()
                for obj in related_many_objects.all():
                    getattr(obj, obj_varname).remove(alias_object)
                    getattr(obj, obj_varname).add(primary_object)
    
            # Migrate all generic foreign key references from alias object to primary object.
            for field in generic_fields:
                filter_kwargs = {}
                filter_kwargs[field.fk_field] = alias_object._get_pk_val()
                filter_kwargs[field.ct_field] = field.get_content_type(alias_object)
                for generic_related_object in field.model.objects.filter(**filter_kwargs):
                    setattr(generic_related_object, field.name, primary_object)
                    generic_related_object.save()
                    
            # Try to fill all missing values in primary object by values of duplicates
            filled_up = set()
            for field_name in blank_local_fields:
                val = getattr(alias_object, field_name) 
                if val not in [None, '']:
                    setattr(primary_object, field_name, val)
                    filled_up.add(field_name)
            blank_local_fields -= filled_up
                
            if not keep_old:
                alias_object.delete()
        primary_object.save()
        return primary_object