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# User
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## class User
```python theme={null}
(service_api: 'ServiceApi',
attrs: 'MutableMapping[str, Any]',
api_key: 'str | None' = None)
```
## Description
A user on a W\&B instance.
This allows managing a user's API keys and accessing information like
team memberships. The `create` class method can be used to create a new
user.
## Args
* `service_api`: The service API instance to use for querying W\&B.
* `api_key`:
## Properties
### property api\_keys
Names of the user's API keys.
This property returns the names of the the API keys, *not* the secret
associated with the key. The name of the key cannot be used as an API
key.
The list is empty if the user has no API keys or if API keys have not
been loaded.
### property teams
Names of the user's teams.
This is an empty list if the user has no team memberships or if teams
data was not loaded.
### property user\_api
A `wandb.Api` instance using the user's credentials.
## Methods
### method User.create()
```python theme={null}
api: 'Api',
email: 'str',
admin: 'bool | None' = False
```
Create a new user.
This is an internal method. Use the `create_user()` method of
`wandb.Api` instead.
##### Arguments
* `api`: The API instance to use to create the user.
* `email`: The email for the user.
* `admin`: Whether this user should be a global instance admin.
### method User.delete\_api\_key()
```python theme={null}
self,
api_key: 'str'
```
Delete a user's API key.
Only the owner of the key or an admin can delete it.
##### Arguments
* `api_key`: The name of the API key to delete. Use one of the names returned by the `api_keys` property.
### method User.generate\_api\_key()
```python theme={null}
self,
description: 'str | None' = None
```
Generate a new API key.
##### Arguments
* `description`: A description for the new API key. This can be used to identify the purpose of the API key.