gistfile1.py

In [1]: from django.contrib.auth.models import User

In [2]: u=User.objects.get(email='xavier@antoviaque.org')

In [3]: u.__dict__
Out[3]: 
{'_state': <django.db.models.base.ModelState at 0x608e3d0>,
 'date_joined': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 27, 16, 51, 45, tzinfo=<UTC>),
 'email': u'xavier@antoviaque.org',
 'first_name': u'',
 'id': 1L,
 'is_active': True,
 'is_staff': False,
 'is_superuser': False,
 'last_login': datetime.datetime(2014, 2, 27, 1, 2, 17, tzinfo=<UTC>),
 'last_name': u'',
 'username': u'XavierAntoviaque'}

In [4]: u.is_staff=True

In [5]: u.is_superuser=True

In [6]: u.save()